Print Sayers James (2 results)

Uncoloured etching, plate 25.5 x 20cm, sheet35 x 28cm. Copies are recorded at the BM and National Portrait Gallery, both of which are unattributed. The print is signed 'JS', with Sayer's distinctive signature, beneath the lower left corner of the image. Neither identify who Thomas Cross is. He stands, in front of a panelled wall, hands folded, wearing a jacket fastened with two buttons, and neckerchief. Through a window or door you can see the towers of an unidentified church in the background.

Uncoloured etching. Plate 27.5 x 20cm. v.g. George BM Satires 8138. Published after the abolition of the French monarchy and the establishment of a French Republic in September 1792. The caricature is divided vertically into two: on the left is England, two soldiers shake hands saying 'For Our King and Country' as they stand outside the Crown and Anchor Tavern; on the right is France, a monk hangs from a tree as another corpse lies headless on the ground. Two revolutionaries attempt to pull down the tavern sign (on the left of the image) as another attempts to fell the sign by sawing through its stanchion. The Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers, also known as the Crown and Anchor Society, was an English loyalist, anti-Jacobin, anti-Radical society founded by the civil servant and magistrate John Reeves.