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- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 August 1785]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Verso of leaf 29. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Fox (left) standing on English soil, and Hervey, Bishop of Deny (right), standing on land representing Ireland, embrace across a narrow piece of water inscribed 'St George's Channel'. The bishop resembles, and is probably copied from, the figure in British Museum Satires No. 6654, &c. His right hand holds up a burning brand, his left is on Fox's shoulder. Fox's profile is hidden behind that of the bishop; in his outstretched left hand is a burning brand held horizontally above burning buildings which are sketched on the right of the design (in Ireland). Behind Fox is a building resembling St. Paul's, above which are heavy clouds. In the channel are ships."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Temporary local subject terms: Ireland & the Irish -- Irish Propositions, 1785 -- Church buildings -- Burning city buildings -- Lighting: Burning brands., and Mounted on page 46 with one other print.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. 1st August 1785 by Thos. Cornel [sic], Bruton Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Ireland
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Bristol, Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th earl of, Bp. of Derry, 1730-1803, and St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Clergy, Bishops, Ships, Fires, and Torches
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A whisper 'cross the Channel [graphic]