Accession number
PML 146857.45
Creator
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Published
[London] : Publd 17 March 1794 by H Humphrey Bond Street, [1794].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
A satire on Lansdowne's motion for peace with France, 17 Feb. 1794.
One of a set of seven prints entitled "Outlines of the Opposition collected from the Designs of the most capital Jacobin Artists".
Item no. 45 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
One of a set of seven prints entitled "Outlines of the Opposition collected from the Designs of the most capital Jacobin Artists".
Item no. 45 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Description
1 print on wove paper : etching ; plate mark: 324 x 251 mm; sheet: 389 x 285 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
"L Lansdowne" and "D of Grafton" in pencil in upper and lower margin.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
A bull in the guillotine awaits the fall of the blade. The executioner is depicted as a skeleton with Lord Stanhope's face. The sacrifice is supervised by Lord Lansdowne (as Janus) in a throne behind altar on which rest Magna Charta and and the Bill of Rights. The Duke of Grafton on the right sets fire to these documents while behind Dr. Priestley looks on.
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