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A figure composed of barrels batters the drooping head of a thistle; representing the forced resignation of Lord Melville following implications of malversation and the vote on Whitbread's motion Wall Art
ART BY: James Sayers
A figure composed of barrels batters the drooping head of a thistle; representing the forced resignation of Lord Melville following implications of malversation and the vote on Whitbread's motion Wall Art
ART BY: James Sayers
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About this artwork
A figure composed of barrels batters the drooping head of a thistle; representing the forced resignation of Lord Melville following implications of malversation and the vote on Whitbread's motion is a caricatures, aquatints by James Sayers (1748–1823), dated 26 June 1805. The artist is catalogued as German. The source scan comes from the Wellcome Collection, and the file offered here measures 4318 × 6000 px (6.9 MB). It is filed under Prints and Neoclassicism, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 74 works by James Sayers, a British artist.
James Sayers was an English caricaturist. Many of his works are described in the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum which has an extensive holdings of his works collected at the time of original publication by Sarah Sophia Banks.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by James Sayers →
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A figure composed of barrels batters the drooping head of a thistle; representing the forced resignation of Lord Melville following implications of malversation and the vote on Whitbread's motion is free to preview at web resolution. The original high-resolution file is a one-time purchase, or included with an Archive Lane membership (up to 1,000 high-resolution downloads per day) — and the artwork can also be ordered as a made-to-order print.
