John Arthur Roebuck. Chromolithograph by Vincent Brooks, Day and Son after Ape (C. Pellegrini), 1874.

  • Pellegrini, Carlo, 1838-1889.
Date:
11 April 1874
Reference:
66i
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The Right Honourable J.A. Roebuck, M.P. for Bath and Sheffield, founder of the Roebuck Committee, chairman of the Sebastopol Committee for inquiry into the conduct of the Crimean War. "Tear 'em" was his nickname, arising from his "propensity for outspoken personal, and hence frequently unproductive, attacks on his opponents" (Oxford dictionary of national biography)

Publication/Creation

[London] : Vanity Fair, 11 April 1874 (Vincent Brooks, Day and Son)

Physical description

1 print : chromolithograph ; image 30.7 x 18.5 cm

Lettering

"Tear 'em". Ape. Bears number "226" top right corner of mount

References note

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors and scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 2519.4

Reference

Wellcome Collection 66i

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