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La Tentation   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: John Doyle (HB)

Printed by: A Ducôte
Published by: Thomas McLean
Title
La Tentation
Description
English: No. 257. Mephistopheles, in centre, trying to persuade Faust, to right (Sir Robert Peel), to sell his soul to two men standing to left (Lord Althorp and Edward Stanley), holding a box, from which hangs a piece of paper lettered 'Treasury'. 29 April 1833
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Depicted people Portrait of: Sir Robert Peel
Date 1833
date QS:P571,+1833-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 288 millimetres
Width: 381 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1982,U.815
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Text from 'An Illustrative Key to the Political Sketches of H.B.', London 1841:

Sir Robert Peel, in the character of Faust, is tempted by Mephistophiles to sell his soul to the Whigs, for the price of the office of First Lord of the Treasury. The Mephistophiles in this negociation must be the demon of Ambition, not of Lucre; not Mammon, but Satan himself, in propriâ personâ, for Sir Robert is too wealthy to covet office for its emoluments; and if he desire it at all, must do so for the love of power and distinction. The bearers of the temptation are Lord Althorp and Mr. Stanley; and the keen and searching glance of the latter imply an inward conviction, arising from a congeniality of spirit, that over a mind like that of Sir Robert Peel the arts of the tempter will not prevail.
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