Gladiator pugnans [graphic].

Description

Title: Gladiator pugnans [graphic].
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [17 March 1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey
Abstract: Charles James Fox, standing on a pedestal in a posture of a fighting gladiator, strikes the royal arms with his outstretched left arm. In his right hand he holds a dagger hidden under a sheet of paper. Under his feet is a large volume inscribed "Good Ground of Opposi[tion] Subscription Book." On it stands a collection box
Description: Title etched below image.
Attributed to Sayers in the British Museum catalogue.
Fifth of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition ..."; see British Museum catalogue.
Temporary local subject terms: Royal arms -- Subscriptions: Subscription for Fox -- Boxes: Money box.
1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 30.3 x 23.8 cm, on sheet 32.9 x 25.8 cm.
Mounted on leaf 59 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
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).
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 30.2 x 24 cm, on sheet 43 x 34 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1794
Etchings England London 1794
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic): Coats of arms
Books
Subjects: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Coats of arms
Books
England > 1794
England > London > 1794
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Ownership
Sayers, James, 1748-1823 > Ownership

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