[Lord Grantley] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Lord Grantley] [graphic]
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Bretherton, Charles, approximately 1760-1783, publisher.
Published / Created: [17 June 1782]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 17th June 1782 by C. Bretherton
Abstract: Full length profile portrait of Sir Fletcher Norton, Baron Grantley, facing left and wearing a sword, his right hand inside a long coat, his left under the coat-tail
Description: Title from variant state in the British Museum catalogue.
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
Variant state, without plate number "XVIII" in upper left corner. Cf. No. 6071 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Mounted with three other prints on leaf 10 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 Grantley.
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 17.7 x 12 cm, on sheet 19.3 x 14 cm
Edition: [State without plate number].
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures
Etchings England London 1782
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
England.
Subject (Name): Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789,
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Politicians
Subjects: Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789
Clothing & dress > England > 1780-1790
Politicians > England
England > London > 1782
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Ownership
Sayers, James, 1748-1823 > Ownership

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