The mask [graphic]

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Title: The mask [graphic]
Alternative Title: Fronti nulla fides
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Bretherton, Charles, approximately 1760-1783.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, publisher.
Published / Created: [21 May 1783]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 21st May 1783 by H. [sic] Bretherton, New Bond Street
Abstract: Full face mask combined from faces of Charles Fox on the left and Lord North on the right. Fox's dark hair, squinted eye and self-assured smile are countered by North's powdered wig, puzzled frown and straight mouth. Inscribed above, "Fronti nulla fides."
Description: Title engraved below image.
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
"Although lettered 'H Bretherton', no such person is known, and it must be an error for James or possibly Charles."--British Museum online catalogue.
1 print : stipple engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 26.7 x 18.9 cm, on sheet 29 x 20.8 cm.
Mounted on leaf 15 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 26.5 x 18.9 cm, on sheet 32 x 23 cm
Language: English

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

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