A transfer of East India stock [graphic]

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Title: A transfer of East India stock [graphic]
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792, publisher.
Published / Created: [25 November 1783]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 25th Novr. 1783 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Abstract: The complacently smiling Charles Fox walks across a cobblestone street towards an arched gateway resembling the entrance to the St. James's Palace, carrying the East India House on his shoulders. A note stuck in his pocket and two other ones that he walks on, as well as the papers falling out of the house, refer to the first of his East India bills that met with violent opposition
Description: Title etched below image.
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 30.5 x 22.7 cm, on sheet 32.8 x 24.5 cm.
Mounted on leaf 20 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 30 x 22.4 cm, on sheet 38 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1783
Etchings England London 1783
Material: etching with stipple ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Subject (Name): Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
East India Company
Subject (Topic): Management
Politics and government
Building models
Gates
Subjects: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
East India Company > Management
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1760-1789
Building models
Gates
England > 1783
England > London > 1783
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Ownership
Sayers, James, 1748-1823 > Ownership

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