Numbered "6" within plate at upper left.
The sixth of a set of 7 prints by Sayers entitled Outlines of the opposition in 1795 collected from the works of the most capital Jacobin artists.
Item no. 131 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
The Marquis of Buckingham (George Nugent Temple Grenville), tall and bulky, stands against a measuring-post, wearing dark spectacles and with bare feet (his shoes lie beside him); Lord Derby (Edward Smith Stanley), standing on a table, adjusts the horizontal bar to his head. Buckingham says, "To Pitt I made my Proposition / But he rejected the Condition / So I enlist with Opposition" to a seated Charles James Fox, who is examining a document titled "Condition to be first Lord of the Admiralty" and holds a spear from whose tasselled head hangs a placard labeled "Watch Word Peace." Cf. George.
Names of the subjects depicted inscribed in pencil at foot of sheet.