File:(Doctor Verdion.) (BM 1868,0808.6682).jpg

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[Doctor Verdion.]   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
[Doctor Verdion.]
Description
English: An elderly man walks, stooping, in profile to the left, two large books under the left arm, an umbrella under the right, a walking-stick in his right hand. Books project from his coat-pocket. He wears high boots, a cocked hat, his queue is in a bag. Behind is the door of a shop, inscribed 'G. Riebau'. Part of the adjoining shop-window (left) is visible, inscribed '[A]uctioner. 439'. Against the panes are books, prints, and a notice: 'Old Books bought'. A placard hangs outside the window: 'Price 6 \ Imparti[al] Life of Paine.' (A pamphlet, 'Impartial Memoirs of the Life of Thomas Paine', was published in 1793.) Beneath the design:



'Stop gentle Reader, and behold
A Beau in Boots, who loves his Gold;
A Walking bookseller, an Epicure,
A Teacher, Doctor, & a Connoissieur.
Alias
Doctor V------ in his Wrigling attitude, hawking old Books as Moses
does old Cloaths.' 1793?


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Depicted people Associated with: Thomas Paine
Date 1793
date QS:P571,+1793-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 129 millimetres
Width: 200 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6682
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

Actually a woman, 'Chevalier [or Miss] John Theodora de Verdion', a London eccentric. Similar portraits were published after her death, aged 58, 16 July 1802. See 'B.M. Cat. Engraved British Portraits' and BMSats 8371, 9063.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6682
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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