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Decorative Sunday

These plates are from Ornamental Architecture in the Gothic, Chinese and Modern Taste, a collection of 54 engravings by the British engraver John Couse (fl. 1759-1764) from the designs of Charles Over, printed in London for the print and map seller Robert Sayer (1725-1794) in 1758. Other than the plates, the volume includes only a few pages of very minimal descriptions for each plate. We don't know much about Charles Over, but we do know that this volume was produced during the height of British interest in Chinese architectural and landscape design of the 1750s, that also saw several similar publications during the decade. In this book, Over seems to be drawing parallels between Western (and especially British) Gothic style and Chinese designs as they were known to him from descriptions and representations.

The Chinese craze of this period in British national life became deeply opposed by Horace Walpole's Gothic sensibilities, particularly in his 1780 treatise, On Modern Gardening, which he started in the 1750s, and as displayed in his estate at Strawberry Hill.

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Tulips (circa 1770) by Robert Sayer (British). 

Hand-coloured etching.

http://clevelandart.org/art/1955.478

archive.org

[treasuresfromthearchives]

Starting of Game

Anonymous, British, 18th century British Publisher Robert Sayer British Publisher John Bennett British September 21, 1782

[captainflirt]

Capt. Paul Jones shooting a sailor who had attempted to strike his colours in an engagement. By Robert Sayer & John Bennett. Printed in 1780.

[yesyoureracist]

Robert E. Sayer, Jr., Perinton, NY

Robert E. Sayer, Jr. allegedly beat an 82-year-old man, then stole his gas can because he believed the man was a communist who was going to go burn down houses.

A Perinton man is accused of beating an 82-year-old man at a Fairport gas station early Thursday in what police say was an "unprovoked and random violent act."

According to police, Robert E. Sayer, Jr., 28, of Alpine Knoll, attacked the victim around 8:50 a.m. as the man pumped gas at a service station near the village four corners. The beating left the victim with multiple facial fractures, including around his eyes and his nose. Sayer also stole the victim's gas can.

The victim "didn't even see his attacker," said Police Chief Samuel A. Farina, Jr. "He was blindsided. This was just unprovoked."

In spontaneous statements to police, Farina said, Sayer said he attacked the man "because he thought he was a communist and he was going to burn down houses."

In other statements to police, Farina said, Sayer told officers that he had been part of the recent protests in Charlottesville.

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“Chart, containing the coasts of California, New Albion, and Russian discoveries to the north; with the peninsula of Kamtschatka, in Asia, opposite thereto; and islands, dispersed over the Pacific Ocean, to the north of the line. North America and the West Indies, with the opposite coasts of Europe and Africa.” by Robert Sayer and John Bennett (1775), from the Library of Congress (via “Six Strange Maps of California”):

Early state map, inaccurate yet elegant. Graphically, it is exceptionally well done. Wheat: "This was the most elaborate map of California that had yet appeared. It is beautifully designed and drawn, and includes a large number of the mining towns, though it cannot be entirely commended for accuracy." A portion of this map was published as Gibbes' New Map of the Gold Region in California, 1851, which was also issued in the Stockton Directory and Emigrant's Guide to the Southern Mines, Stockton, 1852 (Rocq 12978). Full color by county, map is folded into dark green cloth covers 18x10.5 with "Gibbes' Map Of The State Of California" stamped in gilt. Sherman and Smith of New York is also listed as Publisher.