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James Sayers
1748-1823
Carlo Khan's triumphal entry into Leadenhall Street / JS f.
etching with stipple, hand colored
image: 284 x 224 mm; plate mark: 303 x 228 mm; sheet: 319 x 246 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 3244
Published:
[London] : Published 5th Decr. 1783 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street, [1783]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Inscription:
Names of the subjects represented inscribed in the upper and lower margins.
Notes:
"Plate 2d" below title.
The second of a numbered set of four satirical prints by Sayers on Fox and the India Bill.
Summary:
Charles Fox, dressed as an Oriental prince, rides on top of an elephant depicted with Lord North's anxious-looking face. On his side to the left is a banner with "king of kings" written in Greek and "The man of the people" in English but crossed out to make it illegible. The elephant is led by Burke dressed in the Oriental fashion and blowing a trumpet. From the trumpet is suspended a fringed map of Bengal.
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