Accession number
PML 146857.86
Creator
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Published
[London] : Publd 8th March 1787 by T.Cornell, [1787]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Cartoon satirizing Richard Watson's opposition to the French Commercial Treaty.
Item no. 86 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Item no. 86 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Description
1 print : etching and aquatint ; image: 273 x 222 mm; plate mark: 291 x 229 mm; sheet: 333 x 265 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
In pencil at foot: Bishop Landaff [sic].
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Bishop Watson of Llandaff stands in profile to the right, his arms outstretched as if preaching. He stands under an archway formed by a retort, the furnace of which is behind him (left); the neck of the retort swells into a globe above his head, then bends downwards, its bulb resting on a table or pedestal (right). A bishop (Pretyman) sits in back view (left) facing the furnace. The retort contains (above the furnace) papers inscribed "Treaty of Commerce between Great Britain and France", and "Chemical Deductions { impolitic prejudicial to the Manufacturers My Vote against the Treaty"; in the central bulb above his head are small etchings of St Paul's and Lincoln Cathedrals; between them is etched: Some fancy this Promotion odd As not the handy-work of God Though e'en the Bishops dissapointed Must own it made by God's anointed. Swift. Cf. George.
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