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Paradise lost
Title
Paradise lost [graphic] / JS [monogram] f.
Publication
[London] : Published 17th July 1782 by Charles Bretherton, New Bond Street, [17 July 1782]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and drypoint ; plate mark 27.7 x 22.9 cm, on sheet 35 x 27 cm
Notes
Title etched below image.
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
Nine lines from John Milton's Paradise lost etched in two columns below image, on either side of title: ... to the eastern side of Paradise so late their happy seat ...
Provenance
Bequeathed by James Sayers to his sister and later given to Lord Eldon. Purchased from Christie's sale of Fine Books and Manuscripts, lot 305, 19 June 2012, with Lord Eldon's notebook (now LWL Mss Vol. 202).
Thomas Philip Robinson, Earl DeGrey, 1781-1859.
Summary
A mournful Fox and Burke stand arm in arm outside the gates of Paradise holding their handkerchiefs. Above the gate a stone arch is decorated with satyrs' heads and those of Barré, Shelburne, and Dunning. A reference to the resignation of Fox and Burke after Shelburne's appointment as First Lord of the Treasury in July 1782.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 26, 2005
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5, no. 6011
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1782.
Etchings - England - London - 1782.
Drypoints - England - London - 1782.
Watermarks (Paper) - E & P - 1801
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