- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 6th January 1784.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 19. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Fox is depicted as Phaeton, falling from a chariot drawn by a lion and a unicorn. In Fox's hand is a scroll marked India Reform Bill. Verses from Gray's Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College are inscribed below title
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following printmaker's signature: Plate [the] 3d., Two lines of quoted verse below title: "Ambition this shall tempt to rise, then whirl the wretch from high." Gray., and Mounted on page 31 with one other print.
- Publisher:
- Published as the act directs by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Phaethon (Greek mythology), Chariots, Lions, Unicorns, and Falling
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The fall of Phaeton [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 6th January 1784.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 19. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Fox is depicted as Phaeton, falling from a chariot drawn by a lion and a unicorn. In Fox's hand is a scroll marked India Reform Bill. Verses from Gray's Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College are inscribed below title
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following printmaker's signature: Plate [the] 3d., Two lines of quoted verse below title: "Ambition this shall tempt to rise, then whirl the wretch from high." Gray., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 31.1 x 22.8 cm, on sheet 33.3 x 24.4 cm., Mounted on leaf 19 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and Watermark: E & P 1801.
- Publisher:
- Published as the act directs by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Phaethon (Greek mythology), Chariots, Lions, Unicorns, and Falling
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The fall of Phaeton [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 6th January 1784.
- Call Number:
- 784.01.06.01.3+
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 19. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Fox is depicted as Phaeton, falling from a chariot drawn by a lion and a unicorn. In Fox's hand is a scroll marked India Reform Bill. Verses from Gray's Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College are inscribed below title
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following printmaker's signature: Plate [the] 3d., Two lines of quoted verse below title: "Ambition this shall tempt to rise, then whirl the wretch from high." Gray., and Mounted to 42 x 30 cm.
- Publisher:
- Published as the act directs by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Phaethon (Greek mythology), Chariots, Lions, Unicorns, and Falling
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The fall of Phaeton [graphic]