Accession number
PML 146857.93
Creator
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Published
[London] : Published 17th March 1786 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street, [1786]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Item no. 93 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: 265 x 219 mm; plate mark: 303 x 225 mm; sheet: 339 x 260 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
In pencil at foot: Burke.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Edmund Burke dressed as a Roman senator, but wearing his own wig, stands, his head turned in profile to the left towards Warren Hastings, whom he is denouncing. Burke's right arm is raised holding up a paper inscribed "Articles of Impe[achme]nt". Cf. George.
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