IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225437 accession number: P.14828-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Tuesday 8 January 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Etching on laid paper. Small oval plate impressed onto a small sheet of laid paper, presumably cut down. A double-headed head and shoulders portrait; Sir Robert Walpole in profile looking left and George II in profile looking right. Both men wear shoulder-length wigs. Below the image: 'Unity / Touch me touch my Master'. In the margin on the plate at lower centre: 'According to Act'. Inscribed in graphite on the verso: 'George II and Sir Robert Walpole'. The subject presumably relates to the Parliamentary Privilege Act passed in 1737. There is an impression of this print in the Sutherland Collection (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford), printmaker unknown. See catalogue of the Sutherland Collection: 'George II / with Sir Robert Walpole, two profiles on one head. In an oval. "Unity" / "Touch me, touch my Master" - octavo'. See Notes. title: print LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: unknown STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225437 TECHNIQUES ---------- etching CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1737 - 1737 creation date earliest: 1737 creation date latest: 1737 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown