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It is very similar to an illustration by Maclise that appeared in Fraser's Magazine in July 1834. If so it was produced the same year as his breakthrough novel Rookwood was published. Two years later an engraving of it was used to illustrate the frontispiece of the fourth edition of the novel. Today the painting is in the collection National Portrait Gallery in London, having been acquired in 1949.
