Meeting of Unfortunate Citoyens

Meeting of Unfortunate Citoyens

This print shows Charles James Fox and Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk, standing on the street outside of Brookes’s .Fox (left) angry and despairingly states: “Scratch’d off! –dishd!-kick’dout!-dam’me!!!.” Norfolk (rights) responds: “How? what! –Kick’d out? –ah! morbleu!-chacun a son tour! morbleu! morbleu! Both figures wear the bonnet-rouge and Fox holds in his right hand a piece of paper that reads ‘List of Privy Council C. J. Fox’ with the name scored through. This print yet again, connects Fox with the French bonnet-rouge and to Gillray’s ‘Design for Naval Pillar.’

James Gillray

The British Museum

Hannah Humphrey

Published 12 May 1798 in London

The British Museum

© Trustees of the British Museum

Hand-colored etching

Image: 27.6 x 36 cm

Still Image