Accession number
PML 146857.143
Creator
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Published
[London] : Publd. 31st May 1794, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street, [1794
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Etched beneath title: Credat Judæus Apella Non Ego.
Item no. 143 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Item no. 143 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: 358 x 260 mm; plate mark: 391 x 278 mm; sheet: 436 x 323 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
"Ld Lansdowne" written in ink at foot of sheet.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows William Petty, Marquis of Lansdowne, striding through a doorway into the street holding a newspaper. On his head is a hat with a French cockade, and under his left arm is a sheaf of papers titled "Gazette Extraordinary." A satire on Lansdowne's insistence that England was unable to defeat France and should withdraw from the war, despite recently arrived reports of victory.
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