Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Opposition's attempt to raise the dead / J.S., f.

Image not available
James Sayers
1748-1823

Opposition's attempt to raise the dead / J.S., f.

[London?] : Pubd. by T. Cornell, 17th March 1788.
etching
image: 194 x 159 mm; plate mark: 197 x 162 mm; sheet: 201 x 168 mm
Peel 1588
Notes
Library's copy trimmed with partial loss of plate mark.
Inscriptions/Markings
In pencil at foot Fox Powis Sheridan.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Print shows Fox, Sheridan, and Baron Powys engaged in opening a large rectangular tomb inscribed "[H]ere lie [t]he remains [of] Mr. F--'s India Bill." Fox (left), facing the inscribed end of the tomb, lifts the covering slab with both hands; the head of a skeleton looks out, holding a crown in one hand, the other grasps the edge of the tomb and a cere-cloth inscribed "Patronage." Sheridan and Powys both blow trumpets from which issue scrolls with inscriptions reading, "It was opposed by a senseless yell," and "A bold measure characteristic of the movers mind," respectively. Above Fox is a bell inscribed "Vox Populi," from which issues a scroll reading, "Lie still if you're wise you'll be d--d if you rise." Cf. George.

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