F H De la Motte (BM 1851,0901.54)

Bust portrait (not caricature) in profile to the right of the French spy de la Motte. His hair is in a short pigtail queue, he wears a plain coat and ruffled shirt. The portrait is in an oval which is tied by a ribbon (on which the title is engraved) to a nail. The oval is surrounded by foliage and by objects representing and symbolizing the sentence for high treason: a knife and broken column (left), an axe, a rope, and a fire (right); scratched-letter state. 27 July 1781
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