Accession number
PML 146857.118
Creator
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Published
[London] : Publd by H. Humphrey New Bond Street, 14 Feby. 1795.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Verses in two columns below image and flanking caption title: Citizens ["Honble Sirs and Gentlemen" etched above and crossed out] Since the days of old Kett the republican Tanner ... To ask you for Peace, and receive your Decrees. signed Legion.
Item no. 118 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Item no. 118 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: 166 x 175 mm; plate mark: 210 x 275 mm; sheet: 238 x 304 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows four citizens of Norwich seated on a bull, which kneels with its chest touching a cobbled pavement, address a group of Frenchmen with animals' heads, standing in a doorway (right). The foremost man on the bull wears a bonnet-rouge with a coat of military cut. The next two are dissenters wearing clerical bands, one an artisan wearing a steeple-crowned hat, an apron, and ungartered stockings, the other in a black gown. A sanctimonious man wearing a low-crowned hat is last. Behind them Norwich Cathedral and a ruined castle on a hill inscribed "Kett's Castle" are indicated. The foremost member of the Convention is a man with an ape's head, wearing bonnet-rouge and military coat; he holds up a hand of amity but conceals a dagger. Next him is a butcher with the head of a wolf, his apron inscribed "Legendre". Three others stand behind, two wearing cocked hats. Cf. George.
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