Call Number: Folio 75 Sa85 810 / Subject (Name): Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802

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1. Date obolum Belisario [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: [24 August 1782]
Call Number:: Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:: Leaf 13. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Colonel Barré stands outside a gate in a high brick wall. Shelburne (right) stands, half within, half outside the gate, his left foot on the outside; he has a cynically complacent smile and is putting into Barré's left hand a paper inscribed "Pension 3000£ pr Ann". Barré, who wears a coat with military facings and half-boots, holds out his cockaded hat in his right hand as if asking for alms. Beneath the design is engraved: 'Rome's Veteran fought her rebel Foes, And thrice her Empire saved, Yet thro' her Streets bow'd down with Woes, An humble pittance craved. Our Soldier fought a better Fight, Political Contention, And grateful Ministers requite, His service with a Pension.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching with drypoint on wove paper ; plate mark 33.8 x 23.9 cm, on sheet 36.5 x 26.3 cm, and Mounted on leaf 13 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:: Published 24th August 1782 by Charles Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):: Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802, Belisarius, approximately 505-565., and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Subject (Topic):: Beggars, Garden walls, Pensions, Military uniforms, and British
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Date obolum Belisario [graphic]

2. Paradise lost [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: [17 July 1782]
Call Number:: Folio 75 Sa85 810
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 ..., 1 print : etching and drypoint on wove paper ; plate mark 27.2 x 22.6 cm, on sheet 29.6 x 24.8 cm., Mounted on leaf 12 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and Watermark: E & P 1801.
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]

3. [Colonel Barré] [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: [17 June 1782]
Call Number:: Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:: Leaf 5. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Full length portrait of Isaac Barré, facing viewer, a hat in his right hand, his left hand in waistcoat
Description:: Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Plate numbered "XII" in upper left corner., 1 print : etching with drypoint on wove paper ; plate mark 17.6 x 11.3 cm, on sheet 19.7 x 13.3 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 5 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Colonel Barré.
Publisher:: Published 17th June 1782 by C. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):: England and England.
Subject (Name):: Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802
Subject (Topic):: Clothing & dress and Politicians
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Colonel Barré] [graphic]