Accession number:
PML 146857.58
Published:
[London] : Published as the Act directs by Jas. Bretherton, New Bond Street, 20th January 1784.
Description:
1 print on wove paper : etching & engraving ; image: 222 x 285 mm; plate mark: 233 x 285 mm; sheet: 257 x 319 mm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Printmaker's initials almost invisible.
In this state, the letters in the word "Scotch" are fully etched, as opposed to being represented by the letter "S" followed by a long dash.
Item no. 58 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Depicts a horizontal Scotsman wrapped in a letter which is floating in the air under a signpost inscribed "To London." The letter bears a round stamp "Free" and is addressed "To the Majority, St. Stephen's Westmr. Free Duke or no Duke". A reference to allegations that the Duke of Portland bribed Scottish M.P.s with money for travel.
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