"Nicholls stands directed to the left, almost in profile; his left eye is closed, but he gazes through a pair of double glasses held in his right hand, his face wrinkled in a sour grimace. Rays of light stream outward from the glasses. He wears a round hat with up-curved brim, half-boots, and holds a long cane in his left hand. Beneath the design: '"get thee glass Eyes And like a scurvy Politician, seem To see the things thou dost not" - Shakespeare'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to citizen John Nicholls's parliamentary and unparliamentary letters, speeches and visions
Description:
Title etched at bottom of plate., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Temporary local subject terms: Members of Parliament -- Looking glasses -- Male dress, 1797 -- Literature: Quote from Shakespeare's King Lear, IV.5., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper ; sheet 30 x 19.5 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., and Mounted on verso of leaf 76 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
"Nicholls stands directed to the left, almost in profile; his left eye is closed, but he gazes through a pair of double glasses held in his right hand, his face wrinkled in a sour grimace. Rays of light stream outward from the glasses. He wears a round hat with up-curved brim, half-boots, and holds a long cane in his left hand. Beneath the design: '"get thee glass Eyes And like a scurvy Politician, seem To see the things thou dost not" - Shakespeare'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to citizen John Nicholls's parliamentary and unparliamentary letters, speeches and visions
Description:
Title etched at bottom of plate., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Temporary local subject terms: Members of Parliament -- Looking glasses -- Male dress, 1797 -- Literature: Quote from Shakespeare's King Lear, IV.5., and Mounted on page 96.
"Nicholls stands directed to the left, almost in profile; his left eye is closed, but he gazes through a pair of double glasses held in his right hand, his face wrinkled in a sour grimace. Rays of light stream outward from the glasses. He wears a round hat with up-curved brim, half-boots, and holds a long cane in his left hand. Beneath the design: '"get thee glass Eyes And like a scurvy Politician, seem To see the things thou dost not" - Shakespeare'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to citizen John Nicholls's parliamentary and unparliamentary letters, speeches and visions
Description:
Title etched at bottom of plate., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Temporary local subject terms: Members of Parliament -- Looking glasses -- Male dress, 1797 -- Literature: Quote from Shakespeare's King Lear, IV.5., and Mounted to 47 x 31 cm.
Full length portrait of Effingham standing in profile to the right, wearing a sword and carrying two staffs of office
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Probable a later issue, with the number "10" not visible in upper left of plate. Cf. No. 6061 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 7 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Lord Effingham.
Publisher:
Published 14th May 1782 by C. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Name):
Effingham, Thomas Howard, Earl of, 1747-1791
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Politicians, Daggers & swords, and Staffs (Sticks)
Full length portrait of Sir Charles Turner of Kirkleatham, Yorkshire, in profile to the left. He bends forward, holding his hat in an extended right hand, with his left hand in a muff and a walking stick under his left arm
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Plate numbered "XX" in upper left corner., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 5 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Sir Charles Turner.
Publisher:
Published 17th June 1782 by C. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Name):
Turner, Charles, Sir, 1727?-1783
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Politicians, Public speaking, Muffs, and Staffs (Sticks)
Title from item., First published before by G.M. Woodward in 1796., Printseller's announcement below image: Prints and drawings lent to copy., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: London doctors.
Publisher:
Pub. Feby 14, 1800, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Occupations, Physicians, Staffs (Sticks), and Undertakers
Title etched below image., Title above image: Parisian dresses for 1797., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Where prints and drawings are lent on the plan of a library., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress, 1797 -- Fashion, 1797 -- Jewelry -- Quizzing glasses -- Walking staves -- Bludgeons., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pub. Mar. 7, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sachville [sic] St.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Earrings, Hand lenses, and Staffs (Sticks)
"A thin elderly man proferring his wares, holding a long stick tucked under one arm, rubbing a short ribbed staff against the hilt with the other to spark a fire, looking to left, lit from the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Feu sans fumée, ou exellentes pierres a fusil
Description:
Titles in English and French etched below image., Printmaker and publication information from first plate in series., Ninth plate from: Twelve London cries done from the life by P. Sandby. London, 1760., and Plate numbered "9" beneath lower right corner of image.
"Two women with flat baskets of oysters on their heads, walking into the left foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Excellentes huitres et bonnes huitres à étuver
Description:
Titles in English and French etched below image., Printmaker and publication information from first plate in series., Tenth plate from: Twelve London cries done from the life by P. Sandby. London, 1760., and Plate numbered "10" beneath lower right corner of image.
Publisher:
F. Vivarez and by P. Sandby
Subject (Topic):
Street vendors, Baskets, Fishmongers, and Staffs (Sticks)