[Portrait] Northcote, James / Sharp William
Sir Francis Burdett Bart. Engraved from a picture painted during his imprisonment in the Tower.
Published by Wm. Sharp, 27 London Street, Fitzroy Square. Feb. 14. 1811. Plate mark 47,5 x 35 cm. The whole sheet 54 x 42 cm. Engraving.
Left lower corner torn off, outside the plate mark. A few brown spots to the margins. At the back there are a little residue of brown tape at the right margin.
Burdett wasa reformist politician in England. A member of parliament from 1796 to 1844, barring a few years in the early 1800s. Burdett was briefly jailed in the Tower of London by order of the House of Commons, because of his strong questioning of the imprisonment of the radical John Gale Jones. Engraved by William Sharpe after an original by James Northcote.
Item No: 3487
