Accession number
PML 146857.151
Creator
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Published
[London? : s.n., 1805?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from text within design.
Six lines of caption verse below image: From secret Treason civil Strife / May God preserve our Sovereign's Life / And guard his Court from these Tormentors / Fanatics Democrats Dissenters / Addressing Knaves who sin and pray / And kiss like Judas to betray.
British Museum copy dated in ink: 8 Mar. 1805; possible an unfinished plate.
Item no. 151 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Six lines of caption verse below image: From secret Treason civil Strife / May God preserve our Sovereign's Life / And guard his Court from these Tormentors / Fanatics Democrats Dissenters / Addressing Knaves who sin and pray / And kiss like Judas to betray.
British Museum copy dated in ink: 8 Mar. 1805; possible an unfinished plate.
Item no. 151 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Description
1 print : etching and aquatint ; image: 307 x 382 mm; plate mark: 345 x 404 mm; sheet: 378 x 443 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows eight dissenting ministers, headed by Dr. Abraham-Rees, approaching the King with an address inscribed "Address of the Protestant dissenting ministers in & about the Cities of London & Westmr We your Majestys loyal and faithful ..." Rees puts one foot on a step leading to a doorway within which are visible the legs of the seated King, his right hand resting on a wall-box from which issues a paper: "Bramah Patent Water [C]losets". Just outside the door, holding his long wand of office, Salisbury, the Lord Chamberlain (actually Dartmouth), stands stiffly looking over the heads of the Addressers, who are ushered in by a beef-eater on the extreme left. Behind Rees is Theophilus Lindsey, holding his hat and a big umbrella. Most of the other six are probably portraits, but two may be generalized sectaries with lank hair. A quasi-Tudor window suggests St. James's Palace. A whole length portrait of Charles I is issuing from the frame, one hand held up in horror. Cf. George.
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