The impeachment [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- The impeachment [graphic]
- Creator
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Contributor
- Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [17 March 1786]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Publishd. 17th March 1786 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
- Abstract
-
"Burke dressed as a Roman senator, but wearing his own wig, stands, his head turned in profile to the left towards Hastings, whom he is denouncing; his right arm is raised holding up a paper inscribed 'Articles of Impe[achme]nt'. With his left arm he extends his cloak to shelter a seated figure on the right, who covers his face with his hands, and at whose feet lie a noose of rope and an open book, 'Cash Dr' and 'Cash C[r]' with ruled '£ s. d.' columns, the entries on the credit side being erased. Hastings, on the extreme left, is in oriental dress, his face turned aside, his hands held out as if protesting his innocence. In the air, hurled by Burke, are two papers: 'Treaty of Peace with the Mahrattas' and the portrait of an oriental, his hands bound, inscribed 'Cheyt Sing'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: Had Hastings been accus'd in Verres' time, and Asia's preservation been his crime ...
Mounted on page 58 with one other print. - Provenance
- Charles W. Traylen; May 1960;
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 30.5 x 22.7 cm, on sheet 33.8 x 24.8 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
- Collection Title
- Leaf 41. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
- Collection Date
- [London], [between 1782 and 1810]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1786
Etchings England London 1786
Aquatints England London 1786 - Material
- etching and aquatint ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
-
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818 - Subject (Topic)
- Impeachment
- Subjects
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Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 > Caricatures and cartoons
Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818 > Impeachment
England > 1786
England > London > 1786
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Ownership
Sayers, James, 1748-1823 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 7691996
- Object ID (OID)
- 16194428