A coalition medal, struck in brass [graphic]

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Title: A coalition medal, struck in brass [graphic]
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Hedges, Edward, active 1780-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [3 March 1783]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 3d March 1783 by Edwd. Hedges
Abstract: Head-and-shoulder portraits in profile to the left of Lord North and Charles Fox, as if in relief on a round medallion, with Fox's head superimposed on North's. Inscribed at the top, "Par nobile Fratrum." Below the title is added a note, "NB. The Reverse may be expected in a few days."
Description: Title etched below image.
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
1 print : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper ; plate mark 25.2 x 18.5 cm, on sheet 27.2 x 20.4 cm.
Mounted on verso of leaf 14 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
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 24.6 x 18.2 cm, on sheet 31 x 24 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Watermarks (Paper) E & P 1801
Satires (Visual works) England 1783
Stipple engravings England 1783
Material: stipple engraving with etching ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Great Britain
Subject (Name): Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic): Hairstyles
Medals
Politics and government
Subjects: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Hairstyles > England > 1780-1790
Medals
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1760-1789
E & P > 1801
England > 1783
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Ownership
Sayers, James, 1748-1823 > Ownership

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