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'Perkin Warbeck Reading his Confession', 1897. Creator: John Leech.

'Perkin Warbeck Reading his Confession', 1897. Pretender to the English throne Perkin Warbeck is ridiculed as he sits in the stocks. (Warbeck (c1474-1499), who claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, was imprisoned in the Tower or London eventually hanged). From "The Comic History of England" by Gilbert Abbott A Beckett, with satirical illustrations by John Leech. [Bradbury, Agnew & Co, London, 1897].

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'Perkin Warbeck Reading his Confession', 1897. Creator: John Leech.

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'Perkin Warbeck Reading his Confession', 1897. Pretender to the English throne Perkin Warbeck is ridiculed as he sits in the stocks. (Warbeck (c1474-1499), who claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, was imprisoned in the Tower or London eventually hanged). From "The Comic History of England" by Gilbert Abbott A Beckett, with satirical illustrations by John Leech. [Bradbury, Agnew & Co, London, 1897]

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JOHN LEECH

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30.9 x 38.0 cm | 12.2 x 14.9 in (300 dpi)

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