Accession number
PML 146857.95
Creator
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Published
[London : s.n, 1788]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from banner in image; head of figure obscures remaining characters in Hasting's name.
Date of imprint and printmaker from George.
Item no. 95 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Date of imprint and printmaker from George.
Item no. 95 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 175 x 124 mm; plate mark: 177 x 125 mm; sheet: 208 x 154 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
A design based on the tickets of admission to Westminster Hall, which bore the name and arms of Sir Peter Burrell, Deputy Great Chamberlain. In place of the rams' heads of the battering-rams of the Burrell arms are the heads, in profile to the left, of Burke, frowning, of Fox, smiling, and of Francis with a fixed stare. The arm of the crest holds a scourge whose lashes terminate in scorpions and is inscribed "Lex Parliamenti omnipotens". Beneath the escutcheon is a view in miniature of Westminster Hall showing clearly the Managers' box (left), in which Fox stands, violently declaiming; Burke sits next him frowning. Cf. George.
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