Charles James Fox is depicted from behind, leaning on a table, regarding his reflection in a mirror. The face looking back at him is that of Oliver Cromwell. Fox is waving a document marked "Resolutions" and an issue of the Morning Chronicle is visible on the table
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Numbered in lower left corner: Plate [the] 5th., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 27.5 x 22.7 cm, on sheet 29.7 x 24.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 23 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Published [the] 20th January 1784 by Jas. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658
Charles James Fox is depicted from behind, leaning on a table, regarding his reflection in a mirror. The face looking back at him is that of Oliver Cromwell. Fox is waving a document marked "Resolutions" and an issue of the Morning Chronicle is visible on the table
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Numbered in lower left corner: Plate [the] 5th., and Mounted on page 35.
Publisher:
Published [the] 20th January 1784 by Jas. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658
Charles James Fox is depicted from behind, leaning on a table, regarding his reflection in a mirror. The face looking back at him is that of Oliver Cromwell. Fox is waving a document marked "Resolutions" and an issue of the Morning Chronicle is visible on the table
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Numbered in lower left corner: Plate [the] 5th., and Mounted to 41 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
Published [the] 20th January 1784 by Jas. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658
A silver medal from Holland, with satirical images of Oliver Cromwell. On the obverse is a bust of Oliver Cromwell, crowned with laurel leaves and in armor; on the reverse, Cromwell kneels in the lap of Britannia, with his breeches down, as the French and Spanish ambassadors in the background argue over who shall kiss first. Formerly housed in the Library at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist not identified., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 99 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Subject (Name):
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title and imprint from British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse below image: Thus our senators cheat the deluded people with a shew, of liberty, which yet they ne'er must taste of ... . Otway., Title-page vignette from: Senators, or a candid examination into the merits of the principal performers of St. Stephens Chapel / Thomas Delamayne. London : Printed for G. Kearsley, 1772., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: House of Commons speaker's chair -- Executioner's axe -- Acts of Parliament: Royal Marriage Act, 1772 -- Reference to Magna Charta -- Reference to the Bill of Rights -- Literature: quotation from Venice Preserv'd by Thomas Otway (1652-1685)., Contemporary mss. note below plate on the first mounting paper: The Royal Marriage Act obtained the Kings consent April 1, 1772 -- in consequence of the Duke of Cumberland having married Mrs. Horton., and Mounted to 16 x 19 cm, and mounted again to 25 x 32 cm.
