Accession number
PML 146857.149
Creator
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Published
[London? : s.n., ca. 1806
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from George.
Etched in lower margin is a twelve-line poem, in two stanzas: From such Inquisitors Impeachers ... Deliver us Good Lords / Litany for John Bull by Carduus Benedictus.
Item no. 149 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Library's copy printed on chine collé.
Etched in lower margin is a twelve-line poem, in two stanzas: From such Inquisitors Impeachers ... Deliver us Good Lords / Litany for John Bull by Carduus Benedictus.
Item no. 149 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Library's copy printed on chine collé.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 270 x 376 mm; plate mark: 295 x 376 mm; sheet: 382 x 550 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a thistle, with the head of Henry Dundas (Viscount Melville), facing the heads of his tormentors, which float in a cloud of smoke. The heads are those of Thomas Erskine, Edward Derby, Charles Fox, Charles Stanhope, Edward Law (Baron Ellenborough), Charles Grey (Howick), Charles Stanhope (Sidmouth), and Francis Rawdon-Hastings (Moira). William Wilberforce stands on a cask at far left, saying, "Tis the Lords doing And has spoiled our Brewing." In the center, two men carry a cask suspended from a pole. Samuel Whitbread leans out of the cask, shaking his fist at Melville. On the extreme left is Charles Abbot (Baron Colchester), the speaker, partly concealed by the left margin in wig, hat, and gown, but with no body (to indicate that he is nobody). Cf. George.
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