The managers in distress [graphic]

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Title: The managers in distress [graphic]
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792, publisher.
Published / Created: [11 April 1788]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publd. 11th April 1788 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Abstract: "A stone bridge across a river collapses, all its piers having broken. Fox clings to the central piece of masonry which is falling; he says: "D**n the Piers they won't support us". Burke falls head foremost into the water, clutching a roll inscribed 'Impeachment'. Courtenay's head wearing a hat emerges from the water; a pair of legs and hands with a floating bag-wig are identified as Sir James Erskine."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 17 x 18.3 cm, on sheet 18.9 x 20.5 cm.
Mounted on verso of leaf 43 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 17 x 18.1 cm, on sheet 22 x 24 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1788
Etchings England London 1788
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Erskine, James Francis, 1743-1806
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Courtenay, John, 1738-1816
Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818
Subject (Topic): Impeachment
Stone bridges
Subjects: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 > Caricatures and cartoons
Erskine, James Francis, 1743-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Courtenay, John, 1738-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818 > Impeachment
Stone bridges
England > 1788
England > London > 1788
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Ownership
Sayers, James, 1748-1823 > Ownership

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