Mr. Bannister in the character of Miss Polly Peachum [graphic]

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Title: Mr. Bannister in the character of Miss Polly Peachum [graphic]
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created: [1781]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "The actor Charles Bannister, standing, dressed as Polly Peachum, with a small lace cap and wide bow at the waist, holding a closed fan in front of him in his right hand, looking away to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Printed on one sheet with a portrait also by Sayers: Miss Farren.
1 print : etching and aquatint with stipple engraving and roulette on wove paperr ; plate mark 24.9 x 17.4 cm, on sheet 26.8 x 19.2 cm.
Mounted on leaf 31 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 25.2 x 17.8 cm, on sheet 51 x 31 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portraits
Portrait prints
Satires (Visual works) England 1781
Etchings England London 1781
Aquatints England London 1781
Material: etching and aquatint with stipple engraving and roulette ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Bannister, Charles, 1738-1804
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic): Actors
British
Costumes
Subjects: Bannister, Charles, 1738-1804 > Portraits
Gay, John, 1685-1732
Actors > British > 18th century
Costumes
England > 1781
England > London > 1781
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Ownership
Sayers, James, 1748-1823 > Ownership

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