[Charles James Fox] Pand[e]monium. All these and more cam flocking, but with Looks Downcast and damp [...] Miltons Paradise Lost.
JS [James Sayers] f. plate y.e 4.th.
Published as the Act directs by Thomas Cornell Bruton Street ye 12th January 1784.
Etching, pt 18th century watermark. 305 x 230mm (12 x 9"). Thread margins.
A caricature portrait of Charles James Fox after his dismissal in 1783, surrounded by the heads of his former colleagues. The Milton quote draws comparison with the banishment of Lucifer from Paradise in 'Paradise Lost'.
BM Satires 6372.
[Ref: 64124] £160.00
Published as the Act directs by Thomas Cornell Bruton Street ye 12th January 1784.
Etching, pt 18th century watermark. 305 x 230mm (12 x 9"). Thread margins.
A caricature portrait of Charles James Fox after his dismissal in 1783, surrounded by the heads of his former colleagues. The Milton quote draws comparison with the banishment of Lucifer from Paradise in 'Paradise Lost'.
BM Satires 6372.
[Ref: 64124] £160.00