A posthaste conveyance for Scotch members [graphic]

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Description

Title
A posthaste conveyance for Scotch members [graphic]
Creator
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Contributor
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, publisher.
Published / Created
20th January 1784.
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Published as the act directs by Jas. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Abstract

Depicts a horizontal Scotsman wrapped in a letter which is floating in the air under a signpost inscribed "To London." The letter bears a round stamp "Free" and is addressed "To the Majority, St. Stephen's Westmr. Free Duke or no Duke". A reference to allegations that the Duke of Portland bribed Scottish M.P.s with money for travel

Description
Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Probably a later state, with added scribbles in the background and with the presence of significant plate wear that makes printmaker's initials in lower left corner illegible. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.5108.
1 print : etching with engraving on wove paper ; plate mark 23.3 x 28.7 cm, on sheet 25.4 x 30.3 cm.
Mounted on leaf 22 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Watermark: 1811.
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 23.4 x 28.5 cm, on sheet 33 x 39 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title
Leaf 22. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Collection / Other Creator
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Collection Date
[London], [between 1782 and 1810]

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1784
Etchings England London 1784
Watermarks (Paper) 1811
Material
etching with engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Geographic)
Great Britain.
Subject (Name)
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809.
Subject (Topic)
Legislators
National characteristics, Scottish
Corruption
Signs (Notices)
Subjects
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809
Legislators > Great Britain
National characteristics, Scottish
Corruption
Signs (Notices)
England > 1784
England > London > 1784
1811
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Ownership
Sayers, James, 1748-1823 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
6922658
Object ID (OID)
16819307

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