A new leaf for an old book of common prayer [graphic]

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Title: A new leaf for an old book of common prayer [graphic]
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [4 June 1807]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published y [sic] 4th June 1807 by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Abstract: "Buckingham (left), holding a dark lantern, advances conspiratorially towards the closed door of the House of Commons, a high narrow chapel with arched windows, flanked by narrow buttresses and a spire and crenellated parapet. In the cloudy sky is a small crescent moon. A beam of light descends on him from the spy-glass held to the eye of the King in the upper left corner of the design, obliterating the ray from the dark-lantern."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
Eight lines of verse below image, four on either side of title: Guy Faux and his treason are now out of season ...
1 print : aquatint and etching on wove paper ; plate mark 26.1 x 19.1 cm, on sheet 28.2 x 19.5 cm.
Mounted on leaf 87 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 26.3 x 19.2 cm, on sheet 41 x 30 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Aquatints England London 1807
Etchings England London 1807
Material: aquatint and etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons,
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813
Fawkes, Guy, 1570-1606.
Subject (Topic): Lanterns
Telescopes
Subjects: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 > Caricatures and cartoons
Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fawkes, Guy, 1570-1606
Lanterns
Telescopes
England > 1807
England > London > 1807
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Ownership
Sayers, James, 1748-1823 > Ownership

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