Title from caption below image.
Item no. 153 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
With the names of the subjects depicted written in pencil at foot of sheet.
In a room in Carlton House the "Greeks", or Foxites, superintend the obeisance of the "Persians" or Grenvilles before the "rising Sun" of the Prince of Wales. On the extreme left. stands Thurlow ("Achitophel"), turning his back on the others with a morose frown. He is bearded, and wears old-fashioned dress with a tie-wig. In his pocket is a paper: "Secret Advice to his RH No Respecter of Persons to invite Tag Rag & Bobtail to dine". Next (left to right) stand Foxites: Norfolk, Windham, Fox, and Sheridan who touches the shoulder of the kneeling Lord Grenville, saying, "lower my Lord". Next to Grenville is the spectacled Marquis of Buckingham kneeling very low, and pressing down his son, Temple, who kneels immediately in front of the two brothers. Four others, all in back view and all with identical bag-wigs, kneel before the rays of a large sun. These rays are surmounted by the Prince's feathers and strike a solid mass of cloud above which are the (obscured) Royal Arms, supported on a motto: "Auspicium [meli]oris Ævi". Through a large sash window is seen the screen of Carlton House, and beyond it a railing with the notice: "Ruspini Dentist to his Royal [Hi]ghness the Prince of Wales." Cf. George.