Accession number
PML 146857.83
Creator
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Published
[London] : Publ'd 6th Febry. 1787 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Strt., [1787
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Item no. 83 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Description
1 print on laid paper : etching; image: 167 x 239 mm; plate mark: 179 x 252 mm; sheet: 213 x 283 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
In pencil at foot: Fox; at upper right: Burke.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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.
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