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- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [6 February 1787]
- Call Number:
- 787.02.06.01 Impression 1
- Collection Title:
- Verso of leaf 35. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Fox (right), wearing a hat, stands in profile to the left, discharging a blunderbuss at the Commercial Treaty (left), a long scroll whose lower portion rests on the floor. The muzzle of his weapon is the head in profile of Lord George Cavendish, from whose mouth missiles emerge. On bands round the muzzle are etched the Cavendish motto, 'Cavendo tutus'. From Fox's pocket protrudes a paper inscribed 'Methuen Treaty'. Behind Fox three seated members are indicated but not characterized; Burke leans forward from behind them holding out his hat in agitated approval. After the title is etched, 'a hasty Sketch of Yesterdays Business'."--British Museum online catalogue and "On 5 Feb. Pitt moved for a committee of the whole House (on 12 Feb.) on the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation with France. Cavendish moved an amendment to delay the debate. Fox then spoke, attacking the treaty as (inter alia) a sacrifice of the Methuen Treaty with Portugal, and alleging that Pitt was 'opposed by the whole body of the people', and 'wrong in every article of his scheme'. 'Parl. Hist.' xxvi. 346 ff."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Shot at the Minister for a call of the House
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Figure with gun identified in contemporary hand as Charles Fox.
- Publisher:
- Publd. 6th Febry. 1787 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Strt
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and France.
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and France.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Foreign economic relations, and Firearms
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A shot at the Min----r, for a call of the House a hasty sketch of yesterdays business / [graphic]