A folio album of 144 caricatures mounted on 87 sheets, mostly etchings, with some aquatints and other satirical prints, some hand-colored, and one pen-and-ink drawing laid in.
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Laid in, a wood engraving: Principal characters, in the new play of the road to royalty! [London] : Printed and published by T. Rockliffe, 65 Ratcliff Highway, [1829]., Laid in, an etching: Rats in the barn, or, Iohn Bull's famous old dog Billy astonishing the varment / [figure of Paul Pry] Esqr. [London] : Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, [1829]., Laid in, an etching: Funeral of the constitution. [London] : Pubd. March 1809 by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, [1809]., Laid in, a lithograph: View of the Houses of Lords and Commons : destroyed by fire on the 16th Octr. 1834. [London] : Pub. by W. Soffe, 380 Strand, [ca. 1834]., Laid in, a pen and ink drawing on watermark paper G. Pike, 1817: The savior of this grateful country : to Kingston 1 mile to London x miles. [England], [ca. 1817]., Note on front pastedown: This book contains the caricatures published by Sayers during his life. This was his own copy and was presented to me after his death. [Signed] Eldon., With Lord Eldon's bookplate., and For further information, consult library staff.
Two men sit at a table, drinking and smoking. The man on the left says to his companion, "Why Captain your nose and chin look as if they were going to fight they are in such a milling attitude." The man on the right with a large pock covered nose and large protuding chin responds, "Very likely my friend for a great many angry words have passed between them." On the wall behind them are two bookshelves, one of which contains a book entitled "Life in London" and "Tom and Jerry", as well as two prints, one showing two boxers fists raised as if in a bout and another military print
Description:
Title from ms. caption on mount., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted to 20 x 27 cm., and Ms. caption on mount: Preparing for battle.
