For the trial of Warren Ha seventh day / JS ft.

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James Sayers
1748-1823
For the trial of Warren Ha seventh day / JS ft.
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image: 175 x 124 mm; plate mark: 177 x 125 mm; sheet: 185 x 131 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1590
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[London] : [publisher not identified], [1788]
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Title from banner in image; head of figure obscures remaining characters in Hasting's name.
Date of imprint and printmaker from BM Satires.

Summary: 

A design based on the tickets of admission to Westminster Hall, which bore the name and arms of Sir Peter Burrell, Deputy Great Chamberlain. In place of the rams' heads of the battering-rams of the Burrell arms are the heads, in profile to the left, of Burke, frowning, of Fox, smiling, and of Francis with a fixed stare. The arm of the crest holds a scourge whose lashes terminate in scorpions and is inscribed "Lex Parliamenti omnipotens". Beneath the escutcheon is a view in miniature of Westminster Hall showing clearly the Managers' box (left), in which Fox stands, violently declaiming; Burke sits next him frowning. Cf. BM Satires.

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