The fall of Phaeton [graphic]

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Title: The fall of Phaeton [graphic]
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792, publisher.
Published / Created: 6th January 1784.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published as the act directs by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Abstract: Fox is depicted as Phaeton, falling from a chariot drawn by a lion and a unicorn. In Fox's hand is a scroll marked India Reform Bill. Verses from Gray's Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College are inscribed below title
Description: Title etched below image.
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
Text following printmaker's signature: Plate [the] 3d.
Two lines of quoted verse below title: "Ambition this shall tempt to rise, then whirl the wretch from high." Gray.
1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 31.1 x 22.8 cm, on sheet 33.3 x 24.4 cm.
Mounted on leaf 19 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Watermark: E & P 1801.
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 31.2 x 22.8 cm, on sheet 38 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1784
Political cartoons England 1784
Etchings England London 1784
Watermarks (Paper) E & P 1801
Material: etching ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic): Phaethon (Greek mythology)
Chariots
Lions
Unicorns
Falling
Subjects: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Phaethon (Greek mythology)
Chariots
Lions
Unicorns
Falling
England > 1784
England > London > 1784
E & P > 1801
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Ownership
Sayers, James, 1748-1823 > Ownership

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