[Lord North] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Lord North] [graphic]
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Bretherton, Charles, approximately 1760-1783, publisher.
Published / Created: [14 May 1782]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 14th May 1782 by C. Bretherton
Abstract: Full length portrait of North facing right, with a paper in his right hand
Description: Title from British Museum catalogue.
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
Plate numbered "12" in upper left corner.
1 print : etching and drypoint on wove paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 11.3 cm, on sheet 19.3 x 13.2 cm.
Mounted with three other prints on leaf 2 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Lord North.
Provenance: Bequeathed by James Sayers to his sister and later given to Lord Eldon. Purchased from Christie's sale of Fine Books and Manuscripts, lot 305, 19 June 2012, with Lord Eldon's notebook (now LWL Mss Vol. 202).
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.6 x 11.1 cm, on sheet 25 x 19 cm
Edition: [2nd state with additions to back and chin].
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Portrait prints
Satires (Visual works) England 1782
Drypoints England 1782
Etchings England 1782
Material: etching and drypoint ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Name): North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Subjects: North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Clothing & dress > England > 1780-1790
England > 1782
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. Notes
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Ownership
Sayers, James, 1748-1823 > Ownership

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