The Chamber of Commerce, or, L'assemblée des Not-ables Anglois [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- The Chamber of Commerce, or, L'assemblée des Not-ables Anglois [graphic]
- Alternative Title
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Assemblée des not-ables anglois
Assemblée des notables anglois - Creator
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Contributor
- Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [14 Fenurary 1787]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Publd. the 14th Febry. 1787 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
- Abstract
-
"A number of men with asses' heads sit round a table signing a petition. They are upon a platform in a ramshackle room; a ladder rests against its left corner; on the ladder appear the head and shoulders of Fox in back view; he holds strings attached to the noses of the asses. The ass seated at the head of the table (left) hands down to him a 'Petition to the House of Commons for Delay [signed] Ign[or]amus'. An ass holds a long document, the 'Commercial Treaty with France', which falls across the table on to the ground; on his right shoulder an ass rests his head; another on the left sleeps with his head resting on a pile of books on the table. A spectacled ass writes busily; next him, at the end of the table (right), an ass leans back asleep. The nose of a braying ass appears through a door on the extreme right. Behind the table an ass places a notice on the wall: 'Chamber of Commerce at a Meeting held the 10th of February Resolved'. This partly covers another bill: 'Chamber [of] Commerce at a Meeting 9th Decr 1786 Resolv[ed]'. On a shelf (left) a figure of Mercury with a wooden leg dances, flourishing a caduceus; the right hand is broken off; behind it part of a vase is visible inscribed 'Wedgwood'. Figure and vase are on a pedestal inscribed 'Ex Quovis Ligno non fit Mercurius'. A casement window with broken panes and a raftered ceiling indicate the squalor of the room."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched in bottom center of image.
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
Lewis Walpole Library: Horace Walpole refers to subject.
1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 22.8 x 28.3 cm, on sheet 24.5 x 29.5 cm.
Mounted on leaf 36 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 23.2 x 28.7 cm, on sheet 28.5 x 34.1 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Collection Title
- Leaf 36. 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 1787
Etchings England London 1787 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
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Great Britain
France. - Subject (Name)
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Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730-1795.
France. - Subject (Topic)
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Politics and government
Foreign economic relations
Mercury (Roman deity)
Donkeys - Subjects
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Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730-1795
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1760-1789
Great Britain > Foreign economic relations > France
France. Treaties, etc. Great Britain, 1786 September 26.
Mercury (Roman deity)
Donkeys
England > 1787
England > London > 1787
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
- 7793929
- Object ID (OID)
- 16819333