Pand[e]monium [graphic] / JS [monogram] f.
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker.
- Copyright Date:
- [the] 12th January 1784.
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching on wove paper; plate mark 30.4 x 23.6 cm, on sheet 43 x 33 cm
- Notes:
- Nine lines of text from Milton's Paradise lost etched below image: All these and more came flocking, but with looks downcast and damp ...
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
Text following printmaker's signature: Plate [the] 4th.
Title from text at top of image. The coat of arms obscures the letter 'e'. - Abstract:
- 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. A satire on Fox's fall from power, comparing the event with Lucifer's expulsion from Paradise.
- Variant Titles:
- Pand monium
Pandemonium - Topics:
- Coats of arms.
- Topics:
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1789.
- Topics:
- Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797--Caricatures and cartoons.
Carlisle, Frederick Howard,--Earl of,--1748-1825--Caricatures and cartoons.
Cavendish, John,--Lord,--1732-1796--Caricatures and cartoons.
Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792, publisher.
Derby, Edward Smith Stanley,--Earl of,--1752-1834--Caricatures and cartoons.
Eldon, John Scott,--Earl of,--1751-1838--Ownership.
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Keppel, Augustus Keppel,--Viscount,--1725-1786--Caricatures and cartoons.
Mansfield, David Murray,--Earl of,--1727-1796--Caricatures and cartoons.
North, Frederick,--Lord,--1732-1792--Caricatures and cartoons.
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck,--Duke of,--1738-1809--Caricatures and cartoons.
Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth,--Marquis of,--1730-1782.
Sayers, James,--1748-1823--Ownership. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings--England--London--1784.
Political cartoons--England--1784.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1784. - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Source Title:
- Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Orbis Record:
- 6921490
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr32978
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6372
- OID:
- 16819302
- PID:
- digcoll:4776519
