Accession number
PML 146857.101
Creator
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Published
[London] : Publ'd 26 April 1788 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street, [1788
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Item no. 101 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: 180 x 160 mm; plate mark: 187 x 168 mm; sheet: 219 x 194 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Burke is identified in pencil at foot of sheet.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Burke sleeps in a half-reclining position, his arms folded, legs extended, spectacles pushed up on his forehead. On a pedestal above his head (right) is a bust inscribed 'Mahomet', a fierce-looking, mustachioed man. A hanging lamp burns before it. On the right is Burke's reverie or dream: A Turk sits cross-legged on a divan holding out his arms eagerly to a young girl who is being brought to him by his mother, an elderly woman, who says, grinning, "I have procured another Lamb for my Lord"; the girl turns away with a gesture of distress. Above the Turk's head is an open book inscribed 'Koran'. Beside Burke in the foreground (right) is propped an open book inscribed: And I have observed that the greatest Degree of Respect is paid to Women of Quality in the East and that the strongest Instances of Maternal Affection & filial Duty prevail there ... Cf. George.
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