[Viscount Beauchamp] [graphic]

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Title: [Viscount Beauchamp] [graphic]
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, publisher.
Published / Created: [14 July 1784]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 14th July 1784 by Jas. Bretherton
Abstract: "Francis Seymour Conway (1743-1822), M.P. for Oxford, eldest son of the Earl of Hertford, stands looking slightly over his left shoulder, his head in profile to the left, holding a document in his right hand, his left hand on his hip."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from British Museum catalogue.
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 11.2 cm, on sheet 19.5 x 13 cm.
Mounted with three other prints on leaf 7 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 Beauchamp.
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 17.8 x 11.2 cm, on sheet 23 x 15 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Caricatures England 1784
Etchings England London 1784
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England.
Subject (Name): Hertford, Francis Ingram Seymour, Marquis of, 1743-1822,
Subject (Topic): Politicians
Subjects: Hertford, Francis Ingram Seymour, Marquis of, 1743-1822 > Caricatures and cartoons
Politicians > England
England > 1784
England > London > 1784
18th century
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Ownership
Sayers, James, 1748-1823 > Ownership

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