Call Number: Folio 75 Sa85 810 / Subject (Name): Bannister, Charles, 1738-1804

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Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1781]
Call Number:: Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:: Leaf 31. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The actor Charles Bannister, standing, dressed as Polly Peachum, with a small lace cap and wide bow at the waist, holding a closed fan in front of him in his right hand, looking away to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Printed on one sheet with a portrait also by Sayers: Miss Farren., 1 print : etching and aquatint with stipple engraving and roulette on wove paperr ; plate mark 24.9 x 17.4 cm, on sheet 26.8 x 19.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 31 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Bannister, Charles, 1738-1804 and Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):: Actors, British, and Costumes
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Bannister in the character of Miss Polly Peachum [graphic]