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James Sayers
1748-1823
Paradise lost / JS f.
Published
[London] : Published 17th July 1782 by Charles Bretherton, New Bond Street, [1782]
etching with drypoint
image: 244 x 224 mm; plate mark: 277 x 229 mm; sheet: 299 x 251 mm
Peel 3225
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Nine lines in two columns of quotation from John Milton's Paradise lost: ... to the eastern side Of Paradise so late their happy seat ...
Item no. 46 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Nine lines in two columns of quotation from John Milton's Paradise lost: ... to the eastern side Of Paradise so late their happy seat ...
Item no. 46 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
A mournful Fox and Burke stand arm in arm outside the gates of Paradise holding their handkerchiefs. Above the gate a stone arch is decorated with satyrs' heads and those of Barré, Shelburne, and Dunning. A reference to the resignation of Fox and Burke after Shelburne's appointment as First Lord of the Treasury in July 1782.
Associated names
Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost.
Bretherton, Charles, approximately 1760-1783, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Bretherton, Charles, approximately 1760-1783, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
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