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A shot at the Min----r for a call of the House : a hasty speech of yesterday's business / JS f.

James Sayers
1748-1823
A shot at the Min----r for a call of the House : a hasty speech of yesterday's business / JS f.
Published

[London] : Publ'd 6th Febry. 1787 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Strt., [1787]

etching
image: 167 x 239 mm; plate mark: 179 x 252 mm; sheet: 190 x 261 mm
Peel 3320
Notes
Library's copy closely trimmed to image.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Print shows Fox (right), wearing a hat, stands in profile to the left, discharging a blunderbuss at the Commercial Treaty (left), a long scroll whose lower portion rests on the floor. The muzzle of his weapon is the head in profile of Lord George Cavendish, from whose mouth missiles emerge. On bands round the muzzle are etched the Cavendish motto, "Cavendo tutus". From Fox's pocket protrudes a paper inscribed "Methuen Treaty". Behind Fox three seated members are indicated but not characterized; Burke leans forward from behind them holding out his hat in agitated approval. Cf. George.

Associated names
Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Department
Century prints