Oppositions attempt to raise the dead [graphic] / JS [monogram] f.
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker.
- Copyright Date:
- 17th March 1788.
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : soft-ground etching on wove paper ; plate mark 20 x 16.2 cm, on sheet 22.1 x 18.1 cm
- Notes:
- For a slightly different version of the same design, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 788.03.17.02.
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
Title etched below image. - Abstract:
- "Fox, Sheridan, and Powys are engaged in opening a large rectangular tomb inscribed '[H]ere lie [t]he Remains [of] Mr F------s India Bill'. On the front of the tomb are two winged heads of cherubs and a scroll inscribed 'India Bill'. Fox (left), facing the inscribed end of the tomb, lifts the covering slab with both hands; the head of a skeleton looks out, holding out a crown in one hand, the other grasps the edge of the tomb and a cere-cloth inscribed 'Patronage'. Sheridan (right) stands in back view blowing a trumpet from which issues a scroll inscribed 'it was opposed by a sencless Yell'; on the banner of the trumpet are the words 'Compare the two'. Powys stands behind the tomb, leaning forward and blowing a trumpet, from which issues a scroll inscribed 'a bold Measure characteristic of the Movers Mind'. On the extreme left, above Fox, is a bell inscribed 'Vox Populi', tilted at an angle which shows that it is ringing; from it issues a long scroll which falls into the tomb, inscribed: 'Lie still if youre wise youll be d if you rise'. In the foreground are skulls and bones."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Topics:
- Bells.
Skeletons.
Tombs & sepulchral monuments.
Trumpets. - Topics:
- Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792, publisher.
East India Company.
Eldon, John Scott,--Earl of,--1751-1838--Ownership.
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Great Britain.--Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India.
India--Politics and government--1765-1947.
Lilford, Thomas Powys,--Baron,--1743-1800--Caricatures and cartoons.
Sayers, James,--1748-1823--Ownership.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,--1751-1816--Caricatures and cartoons. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Satires (Visual works)--England--1788.
Soft-ground etchings--England--London--1788. - 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:
- 13928174
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr33005a
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7283
- OID:
- 16819331
- PID:
- digcoll:4776550
