Accession number
PML 146857.119
Creator
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Published
[London] : Published by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street, 14th April 1795.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Frontispiece/title plate for a set of seven prints by Sayers, issued under he title: Outlines of the opposition collected from the designs of the most capital Jacobin artists.
Item no. 119 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Item no. 119 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Description
1 print on wove paper : etching ; plate mark: 288 x 236 mm; sheet: 319 x 266 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Title plate shows a satyr (left), seated at an easel, painting a head of Fox wearing a cocked hat in which is a French cockade. Behind (right) another satyr takes from a bust of Fox a smiling mask inscribed "Patriotism", revealing his forehead, on which is the word "Faction". Beside the easel lies a pile of four massive volumes of "Parliamentary Speeches". Against this pile rests a large portfolio inscribed "Outlines \ of the \ Opposition \ collected \ from the Designs \ of the most capital Jacobin Artists." Cf. George.
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