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- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 March 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.03.03.01 Impression 1
- Collection Title:
- Verso of leaf 23. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A headless Charles Fox holding his hat in the right hand and a handkerchief in his left, is shown addressing the House of Commons. Below the image is etched a burlesque of his most recent speeches that referred to the attempts at promoting a coalition between him and William Pitt and the debate on his motion to request the removal of the ministers: "'Mr ----- in one of the most animated Speeches he ever made in his Life engaged the Attention of the whole house - he began with saying That he should have sat a silent Spectator of the business of the day if a very personal Attack had not been made upon him by calling him the Head of a Faction, he assured the Gentleman nothing was farther from his Heart, all now wished for was a Union upon a broad basis, upon a fair, tho' not an equal footing, and if the Right honourable Gentleman over the Way would but submit to a Capitulation ..."
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
- Publisher:
- Published 3d March 1784 by Jas. Bretherton
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government and Public speaking
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A hasty sketch of yesterday's business [graphic]