- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [27 January 1789]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 48. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A spirited horse, wearing the feathers of the Prince of Wales in his headband, stands on his hind legs, a pen in his fore-foot, writing a letter while Sheridan (right) guides the pen; his blinkers cover his eyes. Sheridan, who leans across the table in profile to the left, holds the paper: 'To Mr Pi[tt] ....' An ape with the (simian) features of Lord Derby squats on the table behind Sheridan, reading a paper: 'Rough Drat of the Letter', and saying "Hear hear hear". On the extreme left appear the profile, hands, and one foot of Weltje, saying, "By Got he vill teach de Orse to speak". Under the table is a circular rat-trap, in which are five rats with quasi-human faces."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- To be seen at Mr. Sheridan's menagerie the wonderful learned Hanover colt ...
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Temporary local subject terms: Regency crisis -- Prince of Wales's answer to Regency restrictions -- Ministerialists as rats -- Lord Derby as a monkey -- Emblems: Prince of Wales's feathers -- Horse of Hanover -- Writing horse -- Caged rats -- Menageries -- Rat traps., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 20.2 x 25.6 cm, on sheet 21.8 x 26.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 48 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. 27 Jany. 1789 by Thos. Cornell
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Malmesbury, James Harris, Earl of, 1746-1820, Aubrey, John, Sir, 1739-1826, Hamilton, William Gerard, 1729-1796, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, and Weltje, Louis, 1745-1810
- Subject (Topic):
- Regency, Animal shows, Horses, Writing, Rats, Cages, and Monkeys
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > To be seen at Mr. S------n's menagerie the wonderful learned Han---r colt who writes a letter blindfolded N.B. he is in training for sev[era]l other useful purposes ; also a very curious monkey who can read & write a little & imitates the human voice ; also several very extraordinary rats from Holland, Buckinghamshire, Wilton, Poole & other places / [graphic]
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