Robert Craggs Nugent, Earl Nugent

James Sayers
( Robert Craggs Nugent, Earl Nugent)
(Members of the Coalition Ministry of 1782)
London, C. Bretherton 14th. May 1782
Etching
175x115mm
£85
Robert Craggs Nugent, an Irish peer and M.P. for St. Mawes. Nugent has a huge hooked nose and fist outstretched. He was noted for his speeches in a rich brogue. Walpole called him ‘a noisy vociferous and ridiculous Orator’
From a series of small, whole length caricature portraits of prominent members of the Whig Coalition and opponents of the American War. The inspiration was apparently the ministerial changes of March 1782.
BM 6059.