Accession number
PML 146857.72
Creator
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Published
[London] : Published by Thos. Cornell, 22nd July 1785.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption formatted as a memo, dated at top, "Head Quarters Brookes's, 18th July 1785", with the signature of the sender and the name of the addressee represented by strokes of erasure.
Item no. 72 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Item no. 72 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 152 x 133 mm; plate mark: 186 x 136 mm; sheet: 215 x 170 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
In pencil at foot of sheet: Geo. Sackville g3.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows Lord Sackville advancing in profile to the left, with left knee raised as if climbing a citadel, his left hand on his breast, and holding up in his right hand a cylindrical roll resembling a document, but inscribed 'Telum imbelle', symbolizing his unsoldierly conduct at Minden. His feet are cut off by the lower margin. Behind and below him (right) are the grinning heads of Lord Stormont and Lord Derby, saying "Hear Hear Hear". Sackville faces a flag inscribed 'Irish [P]ropositions', above which is a dove with an olive-branch, symbolizing the reconciliation between the Opposition and Sackville, who is supposed to be acting under their orders.
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