[Bonnet-rouge] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Bonnet-rouge] [graphic].
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: H. Humphrey
Abstract: "The cap alone, intended to be fitted to the heads described under British Museum Satires Nos. 8450-7. This cap could be placed on the heads of any of the persons in the series so as to turn them into a French Republican."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from British Museum online catalogue.
Printmaker, publisher, and date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,67.238.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Printed in red and issued with a set of eight satirical portraits. See description for no. 8449 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Mounted with one other print on leaf 72 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 : sheet 10.3 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1794
Soft-ground etchings England London 1794
Material: soft-ground etching in red ink ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Republicanism
Liberty cap
Subjects: Republicanism
Liberty cap
England > 1794
England > London > 1794
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Ownership
Sayers, James, 1748-1823 > Ownership

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