Cicero in Catilinam. Artist: James Sayers (British, 1748-1823). Dimensions: plate: 13 7/16 x 11 1/4 in. (34.2 x 28.6 cm)sheet: 14 1/8 x 11 15/16 in. (35.8 x 30.3 cm). Publisher: Published by Thomas Cornell (London). Date: March 17, 1785.In November 1784, a year after King George III appointed him chief minister, William Pitt faced a general election that secured his claim to office. Here, he stands before the House of Commons, addressing his bitter rivals, Charles James Fox and Frederick Lord North, who squirm with anger at being forced onto Parliament's Opposition Benches. Fox demonstrates disrespect by wearing his hat and chewing his fingers. North scowls and buries his head in papers. The printmaker expresses his admiration through the title which compares the youthful Pitt to Cicero, a statesman who preserved the Roman Republic by suppressing a coup d'état led by the patrician Catiline. Sayers has brilliantly reduced the complex rivalries driving British politics to a dynamic amo

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Cicero in Catilinam. Artist: James Sayers (British, 1748-1823). Dimensions: plate: 13 7/16 x 11 1/4 in. (34.2 x 28.6 cm)sheet: 14 1/8 x 11 15/16 in. (35.8 x 30.3 cm). Publisher: Published by Thomas Cornell (London). Date: March 17, 1785.In November 1784, a year after King George III appointed him chief minister, William Pitt faced a general election that secured his claim to office. Here, he stands before the House of Commons, addressing his bitter rivals, Charles James Fox and Frederick Lord North, who squirm with anger at being forced onto Parliament's Opposition Benches. Fox demonstrates disrespect by wearing his hat and chewing his fingers. North scowls and buries his head in papers. The printmaker expresses his admiration through the title which compares the youthful Pitt to Cicero, a statesman who preserved the Roman Republic by suppressing a coup d'état led by the patrician Catiline. Sayers has brilliantly reduced the complex rivalries driving British politics to a dynamic amo

SuperStock offers millions of photos, videos, and stock assets to creatives around the world. This image of Cicero in Catilinam. Artist: James Sayers (British, 1748-1823). Dimensions: plate: 13 7/16 x 11 1/4 in. (34.2 x 28.6 cm)sheet: 14 1/8 x 11 15/16 in. (35.8 x 30.3 cm). Publisher: Published by Thomas Cornell (London). Date: March 17, 1785.In November 1784, a year after King George III appointed him chief minister, William Pitt faced a general election that secured his claim to office. Here, he stands before the House of Commons, addressing his bitter rivals, Charles James Fox and Frederick Lord North, who squirm with anger at being forced onto Parliament's Opposition Benches. Fox demonstrates disrespect by wearing his hat and chewing his fingers. North scowls and buries his head in papers. The printmaker expresses his admiration through the title which compares the youthful Pitt to Cicero, a statesman who preserved the Roman Republic by suppressing a coup d'état led by the patrician Catiline. Sayers has brilliantly reduced the complex rivalries driving British politics to a dynamic amo by Album/Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY/Album Archivo is available for licensing today.