Heads of the Mutiny Bill [print] / JS f.

Accession number: 
PML 146857.60
Author: 
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Published: 
[London] : Published as the Act directs by Thomas Cornell Bruton Street, ye 9 February 1784.
Description: 
1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark: 151 x 198 mm; sheet: 185 x 227 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Title from George.
Etched inscription in upper part of the design reads: Cui bono - ? - publico bono - Die Lunae 9° Februarii 1784 In a Committee on the Sense of the Nation - Moved - That for preventing future Disorders and Dissentions, the Heads of the Mutiny Act be brought in, and suffered to lie on the Table tomorrow - Ordered That all further proceedings upon the Act for dividing the Commons &ca be adjourned sine die - Ordered \ Vox Populi \ Cler. Par.
Item no. 60 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.

Variant Title: 

Text above image: Cui bono? publico bono

Inscriptions/Markings: 

In pencil at foot of sheet: "Fox", "North" and "Not published".

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

On a long table representing the table at the House of Commons, lie the heads of Charles Fox and Lord North brought in according to the mock decision of the House inscribed above the image.

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