- 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]
- Published / Created:
- [20 May 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.05.20.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- William Petty, Lord Shelburne, invites two gentlemen into a room to see "A pantomimical performance now exhibiting in the cabinet at St. Ja--ss [i.e., St. James's]." On a platform in front of them, Punch with the face of the Duke of Portland performs moves controlled by Lord North and Charles Fox who, from behind a screen in the back, pull strings attached to Punch's toes. A devil points at Portland while a demonic looking cherub with horns playing a trumpet. On the ledge above the entrance is a bust of George III who looks complacently at an image nailed to the wall in which Lord North is dancing with a fox and an Harlequin
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted to 28 x 37 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by Mrs. D Archery, May 20, 1783, St. James Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Puppet shows, Demons, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Punch and the Jugglers [graphic].