![[Thomas Powys] The Atlas of the Landed Interest.](jpegs/58318.jpg)
[Thomas Powys] The Atlas of the Landed Interest.To Pitt by Friendship I am tied / Yet always with his Foes divide / Wou'd make this Son of England's Glory / A creature neither Whig nor Tory Wou'd have him quit his high Condition, / To grovel in a Coalition, Perswade him that a Tavern Vote / Shou'd make a Premier change his Note (A vote from coalescing Embers / of Faction, more than County Members) / Thus make this persevering Elf / As inconsistent as myself.
J.S. [James Sayers]
Published 10th Feb.y 1784 by Ja.s Bretherton.
Etching. 240 x 170mm (9½ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate at bottom, old ink mss. over publisher's inscription.
A caricature portrait of Thomas Powys (1743-1800), M.P. for Northamptonshire from 1774 until 1797, when he became 1st Baron Lilford. Elongated, he walks with a corded bale marked 'Landed Interest For M[r Fo]x at Brookes's By the Carrier from St Alban's'. In early 1784 he attempted to effect a coalition between Pitt and Fox, the first step being a meeting at the St. Alban's Tavern.
BM Satires 6413.
[Ref: 58318] £130.00
Published 10th Feb.y 1784 by Ja.s Bretherton.
Etching. 240 x 170mm (9½ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate at bottom, old ink mss. over publisher's inscription.
A caricature portrait of Thomas Powys (1743-1800), M.P. for Northamptonshire from 1774 until 1797, when he became 1st Baron Lilford. Elongated, he walks with a corded bale marked 'Landed Interest For M[r Fo]x at Brookes's By the Carrier from St Alban's'. In early 1784 he attempted to effect a coalition between Pitt and Fox, the first step being a meeting at the St. Alban's Tavern.
BM Satires 6413.
[Ref: 58318] £130.00