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Edmund Burke ('Cincinnatus in retirement') NPG D12313

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Gillray, published by Elizabeth d'Achery

This satire uses a number of witty details to ridicule Edmund Burke, the Dublin born politician and writer. He is depicted as an Irish Jesuit because of his support for the unpopular 1778 Relief Act which relaxed long-standing restrictions on the political and civil rights of Catholics. Burke had recently retired from government after the death of his political patron, the Tory Lord Rockingham, and the title of the print makes an ironic reference to the honour of the Roman dictator who returned to... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.