James Gillray's 'Design for the Naval Pillar,' the image the exhibition focuses around, displays a statued configured of high relief objects standing upon a rock in a story sea. The base is supported by two figures: Fortitude, with a lion, resting…
James Gillray's 'Design for the Naval Pillar,' the image the exhibition focuses around, displays a statued configured of high relief objects standing upon a rock in a story sea. The base is supported by two figures: Fortitude, with a lion, resting…
James Gillray's 'Design for the Naval Pillar,' the image the exhibition focuses around, displays a statued configured of high relief objects standing upon a rock in a story sea. The base is supported by two figures: Fortitude, with a lion, resting…
In this print, Henry Addington and Edward Law are posed over the cross-beam of the scale. The lower scale (right) contains the ‘Broad-Bottomites’ i.e. the Grenvillites, or New Opposition. In the left scale are the ‘No-Bottomites,’ or the Foxites or…
The inclusion of this print is to emphasize Gillray’s use of scales as a motif against the British government. Here the scales are located at the top of the print, in the center, emerging from the King’s arm. On one scale rests a book inscribed…
‘The Hand-Writing upon the Wall’ depicts Napoleon presiding at a feast with Josephine on his left. Emerging from the clouds above him, a pair of scales is held: one, inscribed ‘Vive le Roi,’ contains a crown and outweighs the other, ‘Despotism,’…
This print shows the interior of the House of Commons with a large group of the Opposition wearing the bonnet-rouge. Charles James Fox sits in the Speaker’s chair, as the presiding judge with a bonnet-rouge pulled over the crown of his hair. In front…
This print shows Thomas Paine sleeping wearing a red cap inscribed ‘Libertas.’ On the head of his bed are drawn the profile heads, with wings, of his guardian angels: Priestly (right) and Fox (left). In the background the scales appear, evenly…
In this print Frederick North is shown, balancing on his left toe, on the center of a beam of a pair of scales. He stands so that the scale on which Fox is standing (right) rests on the ground, while that on which Shelburne stands is in the air. From…