Nine lines of verse etched below, reading: All these and more came flocking, but with Looks ... Their fainting Courage and dispell'd their Fears / Milton's Paradise Lost.
The fourth of a numbered set of five satirical prints by Sayers on the fall of Fox from power and the India Bill.
Item no. 53 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Charles James Fox is depicted half length, scowling, in the center of a crowd of his political colleagues, who include on the left Portland, Keppel, Lord Carlisle, and on the right Lord Derby, Lord Stormont, Cavendish, Burke, and in the foreground North. At the top of the image is a lozenge containing the arms of Rockingham, with the motto, "In Cœlo Quies", above a skull and cross-bones. A satire on Fox's fall from power, comparing the event with Lucifer's expulsion from Paradise.