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1.
John Bull's sacrifice to Janus a design for a peace offering to the Convention / [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
[17 March 1794]
Call Number:
Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:
Leaf 64. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A bull in the guillotine awaits the fall of the blade. The executioner is depicted as a skeleton with Lord Stanhope's face. The sacrifice is supervised by Lord Lansdowne (as Janus) in a throne behind an altar on which rests the Magna Charta and the Bi...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, France, and England
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Janus (Roman deity), Politics and government, Foreign relations, Altars, Guillotines (Punishment), Skeletons, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > John Bull's sacrifice to Janus a design for a peace offering to the Convention / [graphic]

2.
John Bull's sacrifice to Janus a design for a peace offering to the Convention / [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
[17 March 1794]
Call Number:
794.03.17.07+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Leaf 64. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A bull in the guillotine awaits the fall of the blade. The executioner is depicted as a skeleton with Lord Stanhope's face. The sacrifice is supervised by Lord Lansdowne (as Janus) in a throne behind an altar on which rests the Magna Charta and the Bi...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, France, and England
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Janus (Roman deity), Politics and government, Foreign relations, Altars, Guillotines (Punishment), Skeletons, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > John Bull's sacrifice to Janus a design for a peace offering to the Convention / [graphic]

3.
John Bull's sacrifice to Janus a design for a peace offering to the Convention / [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
[17 March 1794]
Call Number:
Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 64. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A bull in the guillotine awaits the fall of the blade. The executioner is depicted as a skeleton with Lord Stanhope's face. The sacrifice is supervised by Lord Lansdowne (as Janus) in a throne behind an altar on which rests the Magna Charta and the Bi...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, France, and England
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Janus (Roman deity), Politics and government, Foreign relations, Altars, Guillotines (Punishment), Skeletons, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > John Bull's sacrifice to Janus a design for a peace offering to the Convention / [graphic]

4.
Mr. Burke's pair of spectacles for short sighted politicians [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
12th May 1791.
Call Number:
Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 54. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An allegorical representation of the thesis of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution as seen through Burke's spectacles. Fox dressed as Cromwell stands ready to strike a tree with an axe, the blade of which is labelled "Rights of man". In the t...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
France and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729?-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign public opinion, British, Politics and government, Eyeglasses, Demons, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Trees, Axes, Crowns, Bibles, and Skeletons
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Burke's pair of spectacles for short sighted politicians [graphic]

5.
Mr. Burke's pair of spectacles for short sighted politicians [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
12th May 1791.
Call Number:
Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:
Leaf 54. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An allegorical representation of the thesis of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution as seen through Burke's spectacles. Fox dressed as Cromwell stands ready to strike a tree with an axe, the blade of which is labelled "Rights of man". In the t...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
France and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729?-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign public opinion, British, Politics and government, Eyeglasses, Demons, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Trees, Axes, Crowns, Bibles, and Skeletons
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Burke's pair of spectacles for short sighted politicians [graphic]

6.
Mr. Burke's pair of spectacles for short sighted politicians [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
12th May 1791.
Call Number:
791.05.12.02+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Leaf 54. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An allegorical representation of the thesis of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution as seen through Burke's spectacles. Fox dressed as Cromwell stands ready to strike a tree with an axe, the blade of which is labelled "Rights of man". In the t...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
France and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729?-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign public opinion, British, Politics and government, Eyeglasses, Demons, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Trees, Axes, Crowns, Bibles, and Skeletons
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Burke's pair of spectacles for short sighted politicians [graphic]

7.
The repeal of the Test Act a vision / [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
16th Febry. 1790.
Call Number:
Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:
Leaf 52. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A complicated design: advocates for religious toleration in a church, the pulpit occupied by Priestley, Price, and Lindsey. The central figure is Price, to whom the clerk standing below has passed up in a cleft stick a paper inscribed: 'The Prayers o...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Price, Richard, 1723-1791, Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Rees, Abraham, 1743-1825, Hoghton, Henry, Sir, 1728-1795, Kippis, Andrew, 1725-1795, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Watson, Richard, 1737-1816, and Nicholson, Margaret, approximately 1750-1828
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Architecture, Military uniforms, and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The repeal of the Test Act a vision / [graphic]

8.
The repeal of the Test Act a vision / [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
16th February 1790.
Call Number:
790.02.16.01++ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A complicated design: advocates for religious toleration in a church, the pulpit occupied by Priestley, Price, and Lindsey. The central figure is Price, to whom the clerk standing below has passed up in a cleft stick a paper inscribed: 'The Prayers o...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. Cornell
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Price, Richard, 1723-1791, Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Rees, Abraham, 1743-1825, Hoghton, Henry, Sir, 1728-1795, Kippis, Andrew, 1725-1795, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Watson, Richard, 1737-1816, and Nicholson, Margaret, approximately 1750-1828
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Flags, Clergy, Architecture, Military uniforms, British, and Hand lenses
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The repeal of the Test Act a vision / [graphic]

9.
The repeal of the Test Act a vision / [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
16th Febry. 1790.
Call Number:
Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 52. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A complicated design: advocates for religious toleration in a church, the pulpit occupied by Priestley, Price, and Lindsey. The central figure is Price, to whom the clerk standing below has passed up in a cleft stick a paper inscribed: 'The Prayers o...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Price, Richard, 1723-1791, Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Rees, Abraham, 1743-1825, Hoghton, Henry, Sir, 1728-1795, Kippis, Andrew, 1725-1795, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Watson, Richard, 1737-1816, and Nicholson, Margaret, approximately 1750-1828
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Architecture, Military uniforms, and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The repeal of the Test Act a vision / [graphic]

10.
Repeal of the test act [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 February 1790]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Dissenters are engaged in burning churches and attacking the clergy. In the foreground a stout bishop on his knees is being kicked and assailed by men with bludgeons; beside him is a book: 'Refutation of Dr Price'. He exclaims, raising his hands, "Mu...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 20, 1790, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Price, Richard, 1723-1791, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, and England and Wales.
Subject (Topic):
Dissenters, Religious, Limitation of actions, Axes, Bishops, Churches, and Musical instruments
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Repeal of the test act [graphic].

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