Accession number
PML 146857.47
Creator
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Published
[London] : Published 24th August 1782 by Charles Bretherton, New Bond Street, [1782]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Eight lines of verse etched beneath the design: Rome's Veteran fought her rebel Foes ... His service with a Pension.
Item no. 47 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Item no. 47 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Description
1 print : etching with drypoint ; plate mark: 340 x 239 mm; sheet: 373 x 267 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
In pencil at foot of sheet: "Colonel Barré" and "Lord Shelburne".
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Colonel Barré in military dress stands outside the gate of a high brick wall, his hat in his right hand, as Lord Shelburne steps halfway out of the door to hand Barré a paper inscribed "Pension 3000 £".
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