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

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Title: John Bull's sacrifice to Janus a design for a peace offering to the Convention / [graphic]
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [17 March 1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
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 Bill of Rights. The Duke of Grafton on the right sets fire to these documents while Dr. Priestley looks on.
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 32.9 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 35.7 x 27.4 cm.
Mounted on leaf 64 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 32.8 x 25.4 cm, on sheet 45 x 34 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1794
Etchings England London 1794
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
France
England
Subject (Name): Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Subject (Topic): John Bull (Symbolic character)
Janus (Roman deity)
Politics and government
Foreign relations
Altars
Guillotines (Punishment)
Skeletons
Clothing & dress
Subjects: Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805 > Caricatures and cartoons
Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811 > Caricatures and cartoons
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804 > Caricatures and cartoons
John Bull (Symbolic character)
Janus (Roman deity)
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1789-1820
Great Britain > Foreign relations > France > 1789-1815
Altars
Guillotines (Punishment)
Skeletons
Clothing & dress > England > 1780-1790
England > 1794
England > London > 1794
18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Ownership
Sayers, James, 1748-1823 > Ownership

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