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
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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 ..., and Mounted on page 19.
Publisher:
Published 17th July 1782 by Charles Bretherton, New Bond Street
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, and Milton, John, 1608-1674.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Pensions, Stone walls, and Gates
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., and Watermark: E & P 1801.
Publisher:
Published 17th July 1782 by Charles Bretherton, New Bond Street
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, and Milton, John, 1608-1674.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Pensions, Stone walls, and Gates
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 ..., DeGrey's note below plate mark., and Matted to 49 x 62 cm.
Publisher:
Published 17th July 1782 by Charles Bretherton, New Bond Street
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, and Milton, John, 1608-1674.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Pensions, Stone walls, and Gates
"Design in an oval. Fox with a very melancholy expression, standing with folded arms facing three quarter to left outside a closed and padlocked gate repeating Wolsey's soliloquy from Henry the Eighth. The gate fills an archway, its top being of iron spikes, the padlock is inscribed Fast. The stone arch over the gate is inscribed Treasury. On the stone wall of the Treasury building (left) are torn placards. One is a broadside, 'Last Dying Speech' headed by a print of a man hanging from a gibbet; another is headed "Gamester". Beneath the title is inscribed: "Farewell, a long Farewell to all my Greatness! this is the state of Man, to Day he puts forth the tender leaves of hopes, tomorrow Blossoms & bears all his blushing Honours thick upon him: the Third Day comes a Frost a killing Froast [sic], & when he thinks good easy Man full surely his Greatness is a Ripening, nips his Root & then befalls as I do!"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 12th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street