Accession number
PML 146857.56
Creator
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Published
[London] : Published by H. Humphrey New Bond Street, 14th April 1795.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Item no. 56 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Cartoon shows the Marquis of Buckingham (George Nugent Temple Grenville), tall and bulky, stands against a measuring-post, wearing dark spectacles and with bare feet (his shoes lie beside him); Lord Derby (Edward Smith Stanley), standing on a table, adjusts the horizontal bar to his head. Buckingham says, "To Pitt I made my Proposition / But he rejected the Condition / So I enlist with Opposition" to a seated Charles James Fox, who is examining a document titled "Condition to be first Lord of the Admiralty" and holds a spear from whose tasselled head hangs a placard labeled "Watch Word Peace."
Cartoon shows the Marquis of Buckingham (George Nugent Temple Grenville), tall and bulky, stands against a measuring-post, wearing dark spectacles and with bare feet (his shoes lie beside him); Lord Derby (Edward Smith Stanley), standing on a table, adjusts the horizontal bar to his head. Buckingham says, "To Pitt I made my Proposition / But he rejected the Condition / So I enlist with Opposition" to a seated Charles James Fox, who is examining a document titled "Condition to be first Lord of the Admiralty" and holds a spear from whose tasselled head hangs a placard labeled "Watch Word Peace."
Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark: 303 x 238 mm; sheet: 356 x 279 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pencil at foot: "Ld. Derby", "Marquis of Buckingham" and "Fox".
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
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