- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 12th May 1791.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 54. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An allegorical representation of the thesis of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution as seen through Burke's spectacles. Fox dressed as Cromwell stands ready to strike a tree with an axe, the blade of which is labelled "Rights of man". In the tree are many emblems: a crown, a star of the Garter, a snuffer, the Holy Bible with mitre and chalice, escutcheons representing hereditary nobility and the arms of the Portland and Cavendish families
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom edges., Two lines of verse etched below title: Nought shall make us rue, if England to itself do rest but true. Shakespeare., and Mounted on page 74.
- Publisher:
- Publd. by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729?-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Foreign public opinion, British, Politics and government, Eyeglasses, Demons, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Trees, Axes, Crowns, Bibles, and Skeletons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Burke's pair of spectacles for short sighted politicians [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 12th May 1791.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 54. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An allegorical representation of the thesis of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution as seen through Burke's spectacles. Fox dressed as Cromwell stands ready to strike a tree with an axe, the blade of which is labelled "Rights of man". In the tree are many emblems: a crown, a star of the Garter, a snuffer, the Holy Bible with mitre and chalice, escutcheons representing hereditary nobility and the arms of the Portland and Cavendish families
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom edges., Two lines of verse etched below title: Nought shall make us rue, if England to itself do rest but true. Shakespeare., 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper ; plate mark 35.5 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 37.2 x 26.6 cm., and Mounted on leaf 54 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Publisher:
- Publd. by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729?-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Foreign public opinion, British, Politics and government, Eyeglasses, Demons, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Trees, Axes, Crowns, Bibles, and Skeletons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Burke's pair of spectacles for short sighted politicians [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 12th May 1791.
- Call Number:
- 791.05.12.02+ Impression 1
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 54. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An allegorical representation of the thesis of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution as seen through Burke's spectacles. Fox dressed as Cromwell stands ready to strike a tree with an axe, the blade of which is labelled "Rights of man". In the tree are many emblems: a crown, a star of the Garter, a snuffer, the Holy Bible with mitre and chalice, escutcheons representing hereditary nobility and the arms of the Portland and Cavendish families
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom edges., and Two lines of verse etched below title: Nought shall make us rue, if England to itself do rest but true. Shakespeare.
- Publisher:
- Publd. by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729?-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Foreign public opinion, British, Politics and government, Eyeglasses, Demons, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Trees, Axes, Crowns, Bibles, and Skeletons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Burke's pair of spectacles for short sighted politicians [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [May 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.05.00.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Sheridan and Fox are prisoners behind a bar on which they lean. Burke towers above them, with a stern frown, seizing each by the hair. He says: ""Behold the abettors of Revolutions, see "the authors of Plots & conspiracies, & take cognizance of the enemies of both "Church & State; - "I know them all, & have a while upheld, the unyok'd "humour of their Wickedness," - I have bore [sic] with them 'till the measure "of their iniquity is full; but now, I will bare them before ye Justice of injured "humanity, - I will prove unequivocally, that there exists at the present "moment, a junto of Miscreant Jacobites [sic], who are aiming at the Over-"throw of the British Constitution" - Vide Burkes Speech on the Quebec Bill - ". Sheridan (left) in profile to the left, his hands clasped, says with a terrified expression, "Ha! what's that? miscreant Jacobites! - plots Conspiracies! Revolution! - O! Damnation! we're all found out! - ah Joseph! Joseph! I fear you've brought up your Neck for a fine Collar!" Fox (right), his head bowed under Burke's hand, his handkerchief to his eyes, says, "O the devil! I'm quite overcome, & stupified with Grief! to think that the Man who has been my dearest Friend, and my Chum in all infamy, for Twenty five years, should now turn Snitch at last! good-lack-a-day!"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Father of the gang turnd. kings evidence and Father of the gang turned king's evidence
- Description:
- Title from text in bottom part of image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Burke's speech on Quebec Bill -- Coalition: denounced in 1791 -- Spectacles -- Literature: Sheridan's School for scandal., and Watermark: Strasburg lily, dated 1805.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
- Subject (Topic):
- Jacobites, Politicians, Impeachments, Prisoners, Debates, Eyeglasses, Crying, and Handkerchiefs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The impeachment, or, "The father of the gang turnd. kings evidence" [graphic].