Description: Print Specifics: Type of print: Intaglio (Steel engraving) - Original antique printYear of printing: not indicated in the print - actual 1865Artist - Engraver: Egg - Greatbach Publisher: Virtue & Company, London. Condition: 2 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Light brownish spots in blank margins. Image unaffected. Dimensions: 9 x 12.75 inches (23 x 32 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image. Paper weight: 1-2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)Reverse side: BlankNote: (1) Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. (2) The detail of the print is sharper than the photos of the print. Original Narrative: The Death of Buckingham : THE pendent picture to that of which engraving appears elsewhere: both present a strange but instructive contrast in the meridian power and the final end of the courtly, witty, and licentious noble. Pope, in his "Moral Essays," assumes that Buckingham was at length reduced, to absolute destitution, and that he died "in the worst inn's worst room; " but the statement is known to be greatly exaggerated. This favourite of a monarch as profligate as himself, finding his health ruined by a long career of dissipation and vice, his fortiine diminished by boundless extravagance, and conscious, also, that in Charles the Second's successor he had no hope of repairing his diminished income or regaining any of his lost influence in society, retired to his country mansion, at Heirnsley, in Yorkshire, and devoted himself to field sports. It was from the effects of this latter indulgence that he lost his life, his death occurring at the age of forty-one, at the house of a tenant, at Eirkby-Moorside, in 1688, from fever produced by sitting on the damp ground after a long run with the hounds. For the sake of identifying Buckingham, it may be supposed, with his once elevated position, the artist has presented him, in the picture before us, as hahited in the costume of his prosperous days, and not in that which he would probably have worn at the hour of his death, whether this took place in the " worst inn " or in the room of his tenant: but both painters and poets are permitted to indulge in license. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998.Five-star service.
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Production Technique: Intaglio
Material: Paper
Date of Creation: 1865
Features: Not-framed
Print Type: Steel engraving
Subject: History
Dimensions: 9 x 12.75" (23 x 32 cm)
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Print Surface: Paper
Type: Print
