Accession number:
PML 146857.142
Published:
[London] : Publd. 12th May 1794 by H. Humphrey, [1794]
Description:
1 print on wove paper : etching with roulette, soft ground etching, & stipple ; plate mark: 214 x 176 mm; sheet: 251 x 208 mm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Number 8 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 and 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.
Numbered 8 in upper right corner of plate.
Item no. 142 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Inscriptions/Markings:
"Duke of Grafton" written in pencil at foot of sheet.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
A head of Grafton in profile to the right.
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