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1. Paradise lost [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [17 July 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.07.17.01+ Impression 1
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 12. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A mournful Fox and Burke stand arm in arm outside the gates of Paradise holding their handkerchiefs. Above the gate a stone arch is decorated with satyrs' heads and those of Barré, Shelburne, and Dunning. A reference to the resignation of Fox and Burke after Shelburne's appointment as First Lord of the Treasury in July 1782
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Nine lines from John Milton's Paradise lost etched in two columns below image, on either side of title: ... to the eastern side of Paradise so late their happy seat ..., DeGrey's note below plate mark., and Matted to 49 x 62 cm.
- Publisher:
- Published 17th July 1782 by Charles Bretherton, New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802, Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783, and Milton, John, 1608-1674.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Pensions, Stone walls, and Gates
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Paradise lost [graphic]
