Boring a secret of st--e a hasty sketch of yesterdays business / [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Boring a secret of st--e a hasty sketch of yesterdays business / [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Boring a secret of state
- Creator
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created
- [...] th July 1785.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
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"The trunk of a tree projects horizontally from a trestle on which it rests. Within its circumference is the head of Lord Sydney, in profile to the right, facing the point of an auger with which a judge (Loughborough), whose head is in back-view, is boring into the transverse section of the log. The point of the auger is the smiling head of Lord Stormont, in profile facing downwards, the top of his wig being the point of contact. Two small stumps of branches are inscribed 'Ist Proposition' and '2d Proposition'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a probable earlier state
- Description
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Title etched at bottom of image.
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
Publisher's name is absent from imprint, and beginning of date has been burnished from plate.
Probably a later state, with day of publication burnished from plate and month of publication altered from "June" to "July", of no. 6796 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Temporary local subject terms: Ireland & Irish -- Irish Propositions, 1785 -- Tree trunks -- Benches -- Tools: Augers.
1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 15 x 23.7 cm, on sheet 17.5 x 26 cm.
Mounted with one other print on leaf 29 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 15 x 23.8 cm, on sheet 20 x 31.5 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Collection Title
- Leaf 29. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
- Collection Date
- [London], [between 1782 and 1810]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1785
Etchings England London 1785 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
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Great Britain
Ireland - Subject (Name)
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Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805
Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796
Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800 - Subject (Topic)
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Politics and government
Logs
Drilling & boring machinery - Subjects
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Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805 > Caricatures and cartoons
Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796 > Caricatures and cartoons
Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800 > Caricatures and cartoons
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1760-1789
Ireland > Politics and government > 1760-1820
Logs
Drilling & boring machinery
England > 1785
England > London > 1785
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Ownership
Sayers, James, 1748-1823 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 7695918
- Object ID (OID)
- 16819318
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