Accession number:
PML 146857.148
Published:
[London] : Published by H. Humphrey, St. James's, 26th June 1805.
Description:
1 print : etching and aquatint ; image: 323 x 243 mm; plate mark: 350 x 246 mm; sheet: 400 x 292 mm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Etched beneath image: Sansterre [sic] forsook his Malt and Grains / To mash and batter Nobles Brains / by lev'lling Rancour led / Our Brewer quits Brown Stout and Washey / His Malt his Mash tub and his Quashee / To mash a Thistle's head.
Item no. 148 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Print shows Samuel Whitbread, his body, limbs, and head covered by tubs of varying shapes and sizes, raising a drayman's pole, to which is attached a hooked chain to smite the drooping head of a thistle with the features of Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville; the flower forms a spiky coronet. Charles James Fox and William Wilberforce look on from the right. Cf. George.
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