Nightly Visitors, at St. Ann's Hill

Nightly Visitors, at St. Ann's Hill

‘Nightly Visitors, at St. Ann’s Hill’ depicts Charles James Fox wearing the bonnet-rouge and awakened by Lord Edward Fitzgerald and a series headless ghosts at the front of his bed. Fitzgerald, with blood-stained hair and shirt says: ‘Who first sedue’d my youthful Mind from Virtue?-Who plann’d my Treasons, & who caus’d my Death?-Remember poor Lord Edward, and despair!!!’ Fox replies: ‘Why do’st though shake thy, Goary Locks at me? Dear, bravest, worthiest, noblest, best of Men! Thou can’st not say, I did it!’

James Gillray

The British Museum

Hannah Humphrey

Published 21 September 1798 in London

The British Museum

© Trustees of the British Museum

Hand-colored etching

Image: 36.3 x 26 cm

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