Accession number
PML 146857.55
Creator
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Published
[London] : Published 5th May 1783 by Thomas Cornell Bruton Street, [1783
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from George.
Etched caption reads: Such was the love of Office of the noble Lord, that finding he would not be permitted to mount the Box, He had been content to get up behind. Vide the Duke of C------s's Speech Morning Chronicle 15th April.
Item no. 55 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Etched caption reads: Such was the love of Office of the noble Lord, that finding he would not be permitted to mount the Box, He had been content to get up behind. Vide the Duke of C------s's Speech Morning Chronicle 15th April.
Item no. 55 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 288 x 430 mm; plate mark: 306 x 435 mm; sheet: 334 x 460 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Names of the various figures represented inscribed in pencil in the bottom margin of the sheet.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
A stage coach is drawn by two starved horses across rough terrain. An anxious looking Duke of Portland, the nominal head of the government, is being taught how to drive by Charles Fox who is in control of the reins. Their relationship is undescored by the crests on the side panels of the coach with the fox sitting on ducal coronet. Lord North stands in the basket behind, in place of a footman, watching with anger the proceedings on the box. The front left wheel is broken after going over the "Loan" rock; a larger "Reform Bill" boulder is ahead of the horses. The text below image is a paraphrase of the Duke of Chandos's speech criticizing North's coalition with Fox.
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