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The Last Scene of the Manager's Farce
PRINTS AND DRAWINGS
print
Sayer, James
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London
1795-05-08
paper
overall: 448 x 333 mm

Monochrome satirical print (etching) of Edmund Burke orating on a theatre stage, descending into a trap, before a bust of a shining Warren Hastings, the charges against whom are going up in smoke in a cauldron. Features a pair of wig spectacles on Burke and a large quizzing glass in the hand of Charles James Fox. In a modern traditional-style black wooden frame with corner shell decorations, glazed.


1999.514

BOA Purchase, 1933



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