Accession number
PML 146857.97
Creator
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Published
[London] : 14th April 1788 publ'd by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street, [1788
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
A satire on the proceedings of 11 April, the thirteenth day of the trial, and the last day of the first, or Benares Charge. One of the alleged insults offered to the Rajah of Benares after his arrest was the taking away of his hookah.
Item no. 97 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Item no. 97 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Description
1 print on laid paper : etching ; image: 146 x 150 mm; plate mark: 165 x 155 mm; sheet: 188 x 176 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
A design divided by a vertical line on one side of which is Burke (right) declaiming with raised arms and downcast head; on the other (left) a scene in India illustrating his speech. Chait Singh, looks over a high stone wall whose parapet is decorated with plants in vases, saying, "Gadzooker He has taken my Hooker". On the ground beneath the wall are two hookahs puffing out smoke, and the leg of a seated soldier visible at right. Burke, facing right, exclaims, "Guilty of not suffering him to smoke for the space of two Days." Cf. George.
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