Paradise lost [graphic]

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Title: Paradise lost [graphic]
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Bretherton, Charles, approximately 1760-1783, publisher.
Published / Created: [17 July 1782]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 17th July 1782 by Charles Bretherton, New Bond Street
Abstract: A mournful Fox and Burke stand arm in arm outside the gates of Paradise holding their handkerchiefs. Above the gate a stone arch is decorated with satyrs' heads and those of Barré, Shelburne, and Dunning. A reference to the resignation of Fox and Burke after Shelburne's appointment as First Lord of the Treasury in July 1782
Description: Title etched below image.
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
Nine lines from John Milton's Paradise lost etched in two columns below image, on either side of title: ... to the eastern side of Paradise so late their happy seat ...
1 print : etching and drypoint on wove paper ; plate mark 27.2 x 22.6 cm, on sheet 29.6 x 24.8 cm.
Mounted on leaf 12 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Watermark: E & P 1801.
Provenance: Bequeathed by James Sayers to his sister and later given to Lord Eldon. Purchased from Christie's sale of Fine Books and Manuscripts, lot 305, 19 June 2012, with Lord Eldon's notebook (now LWL Mss Vol. 202).
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 27.7 x 22.9 cm, on sheet 35 x 27 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1782
Etchings England London 1782
Drypoints England London 1782
Watermarks (Paper) E & P 1801
Material: etching and drypoint ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Subject (Name): Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802
Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783
Milton, John, 1608-1674.
Subject (Topic): Politics and government
Pensions
Stone walls
Gates
Subjects: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 > Caricatures and cartoons
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805 > Caricatures and cartoons
Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802 > Caricatures and cartoons
Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783 > Caricatures and cartoons
Milton, John, 1608-1674
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1760-1789
Pensions
Stone walls
Gates
England > 1782
England > London > 1782
E & P > 1801
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Ownership
Sayers, James, 1748-1823 > Ownership

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