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The fall of Phaeton [print] / JS f.

Accession number
PML 146857.54
Creator
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Published
[London] : Published as the act directs by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street, 6th January 1784.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
In lower margin of print: Plate y 3d.
The third of a numbered set of five satirical prints by Sayers on Fox and the India Bill.
Item no. 54 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark: 312 x 232 mm; sheet: 339 x 252 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Fox is depicted as Phaeton, falling from a chariot drawn by a lion and a unicorn. In Fox's hand is a scroll marked India Reform Bill. Verses from Gray's Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College are inscribed below title.
Classification
Department