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Black-George.

Black-George.

H.W.Bunbury Esq.r del.t. I Chapman Sculs.t.
London. Publishe'd January 5th 1791 by Tho.s Macklin. Poets Gallery Fleet Street.
Stipple engraving. 505 x 380mm. Framed. Trimmed to platemark.
A gamekeeper with a flintlock, surrounded by adoring dogs. Black George Seagrim is a character in Henry Fielding's 'Tom Jones', an impoverished gamekeeper who repays Tom's help by stealing a banknote from him. George's daughter, Molly, is Tom's first lover and persuades him that he is the father of her child, although she has several other lovers.
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