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James Sayers
1748-1823
A new leaf for an old book of common prayer / JS f.
Published
[London] : Published y [sic] 4th June 1807 by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street, 1807 June 4.
aquatint and etching
image: 231 x 175 mm; plate mark: 263 x 192 mm; sheet: 282 x 207 mm
Peel 1908
Notes
Title from caption below image.
Eight lines of verse below image, four on either side of title: "Guy Faux and his treason / are now out of season ... 'Twas a dev'lish deep thing / Well! God bless ye King."
The composition is based on Guy Fawkes's approach to the House of Lords in Samuel Ward's famous print "The Double Deliverance", 1621.
Eight lines of verse below image, four on either side of title: "Guy Faux and his treason / are now out of season ... 'Twas a dev'lish deep thing / Well! God bless ye King."
The composition is based on Guy Fawkes's approach to the House of Lords in Samuel Ward's famous print "The Double Deliverance", 1621.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Buckingham (l.), holding a dark lantern, advances conspiratorially towards the closed door of the House of Commons, a high narrow chapel with arched windows, flanked by narrow buttresses and a spire and crenellated parapet. In the cloudy sky is a small crescent moon. A beam of light descends on him from the spy-glass held to the eye of the King in the upper left. corner of the design, obliterating the ray from the dark-lantern.
Associated names
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Peel, Robert, Sir, 1788-1850, former owner.
Peel, Robert, Sir, 1788-1850, former owner.
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