부산대학교 도서관

(b Yarmouth, Aug 1748; d London, April 20, 1823). English caricaturist. Trained in law, not art, he satirized opposition politicians, especially in the early 1780s, with politically effective black-and-white etchings and aquatints. His most famous etching, Carlo Khan’s Triumphal Entry … (1783; London, BM, see George, no. 6276), is characteristically weak in drawing but memorable in design. James Bretherton, Hannah Humphrey and Thomas Cornell published his large, multi-figure scenes or small portraits (some in sets); these feature literary allusions. James Gillray adopted Sayers’s innovation—his practice of identifying politicians by portrait caricatures instead of emblems—and some of his facial types. There are three volumes of Sayers’s prints in the British Museum Department of Prints and Drawings, London (no. 298.d.2–3, 3*). DNB M. D. George: Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, 7 vols (London, 1935–54/R 1978), v–viii English Caricature, 1620 to the Present (exh. cat., ed. R. Godfrey...