British Satirical Metal original drawing 1783 " A Coalition Medal " James Sayer

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This is the original drawing of the "A Coalition Medal struck in Bronze " which was rendered by James Sayers in 1783. This is a satirical piece and of great historical importance.
This drawing was then made into an etching and stippled engraving published by Edward Hedges on March 3 ,1783.
The etching is in the National Portrait Gallery, London , England. The sitters are Charles James Fox 1749-1806 a Whig Statesman, and Fredrick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford  the Prime Minister (1732-1792) Copies of the etching (Based on this original drawing ) may be purchased from the National Portrait Gallery in London
1782
Etching by J. Sayers, whole-length (M. D. George,
British Museum, Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires
, V, 6063).
Lord North’s long reign as prime minister ended in March 1782; short-lived governments of Rockingham (March to July 1782) and Shelburne (July 1782 to April 1783) were succeeded, for eight months before the advent of Pitt the younger, by the coalition government of North and Fox, an unlikely partnership which gave rise to a host of political satires - including the etchings by J. Sayers: A Coalition Medal (M. D. George, British Museum, Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, V, 6183) and a whole length of North with Fox (’Fred O’Daub fecit’; M. D. George, British Museum, Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, V, 6192), and a drawing by Nathaniel Dance, Immortales et sempiterne amicitiae, the prancing figures of Fox and Burke, sold Phillips, 4 November 1985, lot 25 (see also under Edward Gibbon 'Amateur Drawings').
l Portrait Museum.
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