Accession number
PML 146857.156
Creator
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Published
[London] : Publd by R Spencer Gt Ormond Street, 19 April 1810.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Cartoon inspired by the Gas Light Bill for the establishment of the Westminster Gas Light and Coke Co.
Below the title within the lower portion of the design: Extract from Moore's Almanack for the Year 1811 / "And it shall come to pass / That Mr Winsor's Patent Gas / Will very soon / Eclipse the Moon / And when that's done / Put out the Sun."
Item no. 156 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Below the title within the lower portion of the design: Extract from Moore's Almanack for the Year 1811 / "And it shall come to pass / That Mr Winsor's Patent Gas / Will very soon / Eclipse the Moon / And when that's done / Put out the Sun."
Item no. 156 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: 198 x 170 mm; plate mark: 215 x 187 mm; sheet: 281 x 239 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a street-lamp containing three gas-jets standing like a light-house on a rough stone mound between the sea (right) and a hill; these are lit by rays from the lamp which irradiate a dark sky and impinge upon a waning moon with a profile inset in a dark circle, and a dusky sun whose irradiated face looks out from clouds. Cf. George.
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