Accession number
PML 146857.135
Creator
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Published
[London] : Publd 12th May 1794 by H. Humphrey, [1794].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Numbered "2" within the plate at upper right.
Number 2 of a set of eight satirical portraits by James Sayers in which members of the Opposition are travestied as French republicans. With the set is an etching of a bonnet-rouge, printed in red on strip of paper cut along the lower edge of the cap so that it can be fitted to the forehead, transforming the subject into the Frenchman of the title.
Item no. 135 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Number 2 of a set of eight satirical portraits by James Sayers in which members of the Opposition are travestied as French republicans. With the set is an etching of a bonnet-rouge, printed in red on strip of paper cut along the lower edge of the cap so that it can be fitted to the forehead, transforming the subject into the Frenchman of the title.
Item no. 135 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Description
1 print : etching with roulette ; plate mark: 213 x 176 mm; sheet: 257 x 218 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
"Mr Sheridan" inscribed in pencil at foot of sheet.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
The head of Richard Sheridan, facing 3/4 to the left.
Classification
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