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print, satirical print, playing-card
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English: Sacheverell Cards. Complete suits of hearts and diamonds on an uncut sheet, from a pack illustrating the career of Dr Sacheverell. Each card has a small reproduction of a conventional playing card at top right, while the greater part of the card shows an event described in a couplet below.



Diamonds:
Ace - Queen Anne receives the address of the newly-elected House of Commons in November 1710
Two - Sacheverell in a coach cheered by the crowd
Three - Sacheverell arrives to stand trial
Four - he is entertained at a formal dinner
Five - a gentleman (probably Robert Harley) compares High and Low Churches
Six - Sacheverell is acclaimed by the poor in Wales; goats climb a mountain
Seven - the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Samuel Garrard, delivers a copy of Sacheverell's sermon of 5 November to Henry Clements, the printer
Eight - Sacheverell approaches Oxford in a coach
Nine - he is received outside a college, presumably Magdalen where he was educated
Ten - he is instituted to the living of Selattyn by William Fleetwood, Bishop of St Asaph
King - the hustings outside Guildhall with new City of London Tory members of parliament elected in 1710, Sir William Withers, Sir Richard Hoare, Sir John Cass and Sir George Newland
Queen - the figure Envy holding flaming torches is restrained by Truth from burning the Church (represented by the interior of St Paul's)
Knave - an unpopular member of parliament escapes on horseback from an angry mob

Hearts:
Ace - Sacheverell approaches the pulpit to give his famous sermon
Two - the Sheriff of Derby asks Sacheverell to publish the sermon that he preached in Derby on 15 August 1709
Three - Sacheverell consults his lawyers (Sir Simon Harcourt, (Sir) Samuel Dodd, (Sir) Constantine Phipps, Duncan Dee, Humphrey Henchman) before his trial
Four - Sacheverell and a gentleman described in the verse as "the Sheriff" approach a church
Five - the Mayor of Banbury receives Sacheverell at the town's gates
Six - Queen Anne receives the Duchess of Somerset as Mistress of the Robes, having dismissed the Duchess of Marlborough
Seven - the Queen appoints Robert Harley as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the new government
Eight - she directs the Earl of Rochester to take the chair as President of the Council; he was to die in May 1711 and be replaced the Duke of Buckingham
Nine - Sacheverell address an audience from a platform
Ten - the Queen appoints and dismisses ladies in waiting
King - a female personification of the Church of England sits on a rock attended by bishops with Sacheverell kneeling in front of her; winged boys hold a church above
Queen - the Queen addresses parliament
Knave - John Dolben presents the Articles of Impeachment against Sacheverell to the House of Lords
1711


Etching and engraving
Depicted people Associated with: Henry Sacheverell
Date 1711
date QS:P571,+1711-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 373 millimetres
Width: 453 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.3441
Notes A sheet cut into six parts printed with the suits of clubs and spades from this pack was acquired in 1902 after the publication of Willshire's catalogue of playing cards and Stephens's catalogue of satirical prints (see 1902,0212.6)
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-3441
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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