Sep 15, 2011 - Sale 2253

Sale 2253 - Lot 49

Price Realized: $ 144
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE, 1770.) Dixon, John, engraver. The Right Hon'ble Charles Townshend Esqr. Mezzotint, 16 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches; mount remnants on verso; a nice clean impression. Cornhill, [London]: William Wynn Ryland, 1770

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Townshend was the Chancellor of the Exchequer who drafted the Revenue Act and the other unpopular Townshend Acts which helped spark the American Revolution.