Brissot's visit to his friend Lord Leveller [graphic]

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Title: Brissot's visit to his friend Lord Leveller [graphic]
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [17 March 1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey
Abstract: A headless Brissot, with his right arm stretched forward and his head under his left arm, runs toward Lord Lauderdale who is sitting on a rocking horse. Lauderdale turns back his head on a snake-like neck to look in surprise at his guillotined friend. From Brissot's neck cavity issues a warning "To lead the crowd midst faction's storm, I rode your hobby horse Reform, And found my arts prevail,Till other Lev'llers ruled the mob, And then I lost my seat and nob, Take warning L........." The rockers of the horse are inscribed "Reform" and move over a document with an attached seal, titled "Nolumus leges Angliae mutari."
Description: Title etched below image.
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
One of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition ..."; see British Museum catalogue.
Mounted to 42 x 35 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 29.1 x 24 cm, on sheet 41 x 34 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1794
Etchings England London 1794
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Subject (Name): Brissot de Warville, J.-P. 1754-1793 (Jacques-Pierre),
Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839
Subject (Topic): Hobby horses
Decapitations
Politics and government
Subjects: Brissot de Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre), 1754-1793 > Caricatures and cartoons
Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839 > Caricatures and cartoons
Hobby horses
Decapitations
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1789-1820
England > 1794
England > London > 1794
18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Ownership
Sayers, James, 1748-1823 > Ownership

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