[Viscount Sydney] [graphic]

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Title: [Viscount Sydney] [graphic]
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, publisher.
Published / Created: 14th July 1784.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by Jas. Bretherton
Abstract: "Sydney, Pitt's Secretary of State for the Home Department, stands in profile to the left, his hat held out in his right hand, his left on his sword."--British Museum catalogue
Description: Title from British Museum catalogue.
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 17.6 x 11.2 cm, on sheet 19.7 x 13.2 cm.
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 Sidney.
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 11.2 cm, on sheet 23 x 15 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Caricatures England 1784
Etchings England London 1784
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England.
Subject (Name): Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800
Subject (Topic): Politicians
Subjects: Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800 > Caricatures and cartoons
Politicians > England
England > 1784
England > London > 1784
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Ownership
Sayers, James, 1748-1823 > Ownership

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