A shot at the Min----r for a call of the House [print] : a hasty speech of yesterday's business / JS f.

Accession number: 
PML 146857.83
Author: 
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Published: 
[London] : Publ'd 6th Febry. 1787 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Strt., [1787
Description: 
1 print on laid paper : etching; image: 167 x 239 mm; plate mark: 179 x 252 mm; sheet: 213 x 283 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Item no. 83 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.

Variant Title: 

Shot at the Minister for a call of the House

Inscriptions/Markings: 

In pencil at foot: Fox; at upper right: Burke.

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Print shows Fox (right), wearing a hat, stands in profile to the left, discharging a blunderbuss at the Commercial Treaty (left), a long scroll whose lower portion rests on the floor. The muzzle of his weapon is the head in profile of Lord George Cavendish, from whose mouth missiles emerge. On bands round the muzzle are etched the Cavendish motto, "Cavendo tutus". From Fox's pocket protrudes a paper inscribed "Methuen Treaty". Behind Fox three seated members are indicated but not characterized; Burke leans forward from behind them holding out his hat in agitated approval. Cf. George.

Classification: 
Print
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