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The Madras tyrant, or, The director of directors [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
[16 March 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:
Leaf 78. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man in military dress riding in profile to the right. He rides a horse with a long tail and a trimmed saddle cloth. His thin stiffened queue projects from his head. Beneath is etched, "Jos. or the Father of Murder, Rapine &c." There is a resemblance to Lord Clive who was a large holder of East India Company stocks. At this time in 1772 there was a parliamentary enquiry into his conduct
Alternative Title:
Director of directors and Jos, or, The father of murder, rapine &c.
Description:
Title etched above image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., One line of text below image: Jos, or the father of murder, rapine, &c., Plate numbered "v. 3" in upper left corner and "21" in upper right corner., For an earlier state, see no. 5017 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Third of three plates on leaf 78., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 12.8 x 17.5 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. according to act of Parlt., March 16, 1772, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Clive, Robert Clive, Baron, 1725-1774
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Horseback riding, and Riding habits
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Madras tyrant, or, The director of directors [graphic]

2.
The Madras tyrant, or, The director of directors [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
[16 March 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 72 771 D37 v.3 plate 21
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man in military dress riding in profile to the right. He rides a horse with a long tail and a trimmed saddle cloth. His thin stiffened queue projects from his head. Beneath is etched, "Jos. or the Father of Murder, Rapine &c." There is a resemblance to Lord Clive who was a large holder of East India Company stocks. At this time in 1772 there was a parliamentary enquiry into his conduct
Alternative Title:
Director of directors and Jos, or, The father of murder, rapine &c.
Description:
Title etched above image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., One line of text below image: Jos, or the father of murder, rapine, etc., Plate from vol. III: Macaronies, characters, caricatures &c. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., and Plate numbered "21" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pub. according to act of parlt., March 16th, 1772, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Clive, Robert Clive, Baron, 1725-1774
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Horseback riding, and Riding habits
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Madras tyrant, or, The director of directors [graphic]

3.
The Madras tyrant, or, The director of directors [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
[16 March 1772]
Call Number:
772.03.16.03.2
Collection Title:
Leaf 78. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man in military dress riding in profile to the right. He rides a horse with a long tail and a trimmed saddle cloth. His thin stiffened queue projects from his head. Beneath is etched, "Jos. or the Father of Murder, Rapine &c." There is a resemblance to Lord Clive who was a large holder of East India Company stocks. At this time in 1772 there was a parliamentary enquiry into his conduct
Alternative Title:
Director of directors and Jos, or, The father of murder, rapine &c.
Description:
Title etched above image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., One line of text below image: Jos, or the father of murder, rapine, &c., Plate numbered "v. 3" in upper left corner and "21" in upper right corner., For an earlier state, see no. 5017 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Probably a later impression from a worn plate; printmaker's monogram in lower left corner is lightly printed and barely visible.
Publisher:
Pub. according to act of Parlt., March 16, 1772, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Clive, Robert Clive, Baron, 1725-1774
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Horseback riding, and Riding habits
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Madras tyrant, or, The director of directors [graphic]

4.
The India directors in the suds [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1772]
Call Number:
772.00.00.49
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The administrators of the East India Company are confronted with the image of East Indian merchants. A letter of apology lies at the feet of the one director who stands up in fright, his chair overturned behind him
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate from: Town and country magazine, v. 4, supplement (1772), page 705., Illustration to dialogue: The directors in the suds, or, The Jaghire dismayed at the ghosts of the black merchants., and Placement instructions above image: Vol. IV ; No. XXXIX.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Colebrooke, George, Sir, 1729-1809, Clive, Robert Clive, Baron, 1725-1774, and East India Company
Subject (Topic):
Administration, East Indians, Merchants, and Taverns (Inns)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The India directors in the suds [graphic].