A headless Brissot, with his right arm stretched forward and his head under his left arm, runs toward Lord Lauderdale who is sitting on a rocking horse. Lauderdale turns back his head on a snake-like neck to look in surprise at his guillotined friend. From Brissot's neck cavity issues a warning "To lead the crowd midst faction's storm, I rode your hobby horse Reform, And found my arts prevail,Till other Lev'llers ruled the mob, And then I lost my seat and nob, Take warning L........." The rockers of the horse are inscribed "Reform" and move over a document with an attached seal, titled "Nolumus leges Angliae mutari."
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., One of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition ..."; see British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on page 79 with one other print.
Publisher:
Pubd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Brissot de Warville, J.-P. 1754-1793 (Jacques-Pierre), and Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839
Subject (Topic):
Hobby horses, Decapitations, and Politics and government
A headless Brissot, with his right arm stretched forward and his head under his left arm, runs toward Lord Lauderdale who is sitting on a rocking horse. Lauderdale turns back his head on a snake-like neck to look in surprise at his guillotined friend. From Brissot's neck cavity issues a warning "To lead the crowd midst faction's storm, I rode your hobby horse Reform, And found my arts prevail,Till other Lev'llers ruled the mob, And then I lost my seat and nob, Take warning L........." The rockers of the horse are inscribed "Reform" and move over a document with an attached seal, titled "Nolumus leges Angliae mutari."
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., One of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition ..."; see British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 29 x 23.8 cm, on sheet 31.7 x 25.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 60 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Pubd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Brissot de Warville, J.-P. 1754-1793 (Jacques-Pierre), and Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839
Subject (Topic):
Hobby horses, Decapitations, and Politics and government
A headless Brissot, with his right arm stretched forward and his head under his left arm, runs toward Lord Lauderdale who is sitting on a rocking horse. Lauderdale turns back his head on a snake-like neck to look in surprise at his guillotined friend. From Brissot's neck cavity issues a warning "To lead the crowd midst faction's storm, I rode your hobby horse Reform, And found my arts prevail,Till other Lev'llers ruled the mob, And then I lost my seat and nob, Take warning L........." The rockers of the horse are inscribed "Reform" and move over a document with an attached seal, titled "Nolumus leges Angliae mutari."
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., One of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition ..."; see British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 42 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Brissot de Warville, J.-P. 1754-1793 (Jacques-Pierre), and Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839
Subject (Topic):
Hobby horses, Decapitations, and Politics and government
