Richard Price
(1723-1791), Nonconformist minister and political writerSitter in 8 portraits
Non-conformist minister and writer on morals, politics and economics. An enthusiastic supporter of the French Revolution, his famous sermon in 1789, 'On the Love of Our Country', provoked Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France.
'The repeal of the test act a vision'
by James Sayers, published by Thomas Cornell
etching, published 16 February 1790
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'Smelling out a rat; - or - the atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his midnight 'calculations''
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 3 December 1790
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Richard Price ('Tale of a Tub')
by 'Annabal Scratch'
engraving, 1791
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'Mr Burke's pair of spectacles for short-sighted politicians'
by James Sayers, published by Thomas Cornell
etching and aquatint, published 12 May 1791
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by and published by Thomas Holloway, after Benjamin West
line engraving, published 4 June 1793
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by and published by Thomas Holloway, after Benjamin West
line engraving, published 4 June 1793
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by and published by Thomas Holloway, after Benjamin West
line engraving, published 4 June 1793
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by and published by Thomas Holloway, after Benjamin West
line engraving, published 4 June 1793
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