Frontispiece to citizn. Jno. Nicholls's parliamentary & unparliamenty. letters, speeches and visions [graphic]

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Title: Frontispiece to citizn. Jno. Nicholls's parliamentary & unparliamenty. letters, speeches and visions [graphic]
Alternative Title: Frontispiece to citizen John Nicholls's parliamentary and unparliamentary letters, speeches and visions
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [15 December 1797]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. 15th Decr. 1797 by H. Humphrey
Abstract: "Nicholls stands directed to the left, almost in profile; his left eye is closed, but he gazes through a pair of double glasses held in his right hand, his face wrinkled in a sour grimace. Rays of light stream outward from the glasses. He wears a round hat with up-curved brim, half-boots, and holds a long cane in his left hand. Beneath the design: '"get thee glass Eyes And like a scurvy Politician, seem To see the things thou dost not" - Shakespeare'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched at bottom of plate.
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
Temporary local subject terms: Members of Parliament -- Looking glasses -- Male dress, 1797 -- Literature: Quote from Shakespeare's King Lear, IV.5.
Mounted to 47 x 31 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 31.5 x 19 cm, on sheet 46 x 30 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1797
Etchings England London 1797
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England.
Subject (Name): Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832
Subject (Topic): Politicians
Eyeglasses
Staffs (Sticks)
Subjects: Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832 > Caricatures and cartoons
Politicians > England
Eyeglasses
Staffs (Sticks)
England > 1797
England > London > 1797
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Ownership
Sayers, James, 1748-1823 > Ownership

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