Accession number
PML 146857.46
Creator
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Published
[London] : Published 17th July 1782 by Charles Bretherton, New Bond Street, [1782]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Nine lines in two columns of quotation from John Milton's Paradise lost: ... to the eastern side Of Paradise so late their happy seat ...
Item no. 46 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Nine lines in two columns of quotation from John Milton's Paradise lost: ... to the eastern side Of Paradise so late their happy seat ...
Item no. 46 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: 277 x 229 mm; sheet: 320 x 265 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
In pencil at foot of sheet: Mr Fox & Mr Burke.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
A mournful Fox and Burke stand arm in arm outside the gates of Paradise holding their handkerchiefs. Above the gate a stone arch is decorated with satyrs' heads and those of Barré, Shelburne, and Dunning. A reference to the resignation of Fox and Burke after Shelburne's appointment as First Lord of the Treasury in July 1782.
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