An ex-minister training a terrier at Bowood [graphic]

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Title: An ex-minister training a terrier at Bowood [graphic]
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created: [March 1798]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Lansdowne (left) in 'profil perdu', stoops forward, encouraging a dog with the head of Jekyll to bark at a bust of Pitt; the word Bow issues from the mouth of Jekyll, who wears a legal wig, bands, and gown. The bust stands on the ground framed in a leafy arbour, and regards Jekyll serenely, a contrast with the latter's impudent and insignificant profile. After the title: "Latrat et ore fremit, bile tumetque Je-cur." Trees form a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 21.1 x 27.5 cm, on sheet 23.2 x 28.6 cm.
Mounted on leaf 79 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
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 21.2 x 28 cm, on sheet 25.2 x 32 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1798
Etchings England London 1798
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Subject (Topic): Dogs
Sculpture
Subjects: Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805 > Caricatures and cartoons
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 > Caricatures and cartoons
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Dogs
Sculpture
England > 1798
England > London > 1798
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Ownership
Sayers, James, 1748-1823 > Ownership

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