Browse Items (52 total)

This print was the frontispiece to John Flaxman's "A Letter to the Committee for raising the Naval Pillar" (London, 1799). The design shows a colossal statue of Britannia paired with a lion to her right and holding a shield on her left. Inscribed on…

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…

‘The Invasion, Plate 1: France’ is one of two prints in which Hogarth refuted the fear of a French invasion of English during the Seven Years’ War. The print depicted an unprepared French army, accompanied by a monk who tests the sharpness of his ax.…

‘King William IV (A true British tar)’ depicts the Duke Clarence (later King William IV) as a British Jack Tar. The print is a mockery against the Duke’s unsuccessful naval attempts, demoting him to a pouting seaman of the common masses. Gillray has…

In this print, a sailor peers out grinning towards the spectator. He sits on a corded sea-chest and points at his prize-money which is heaped up on a larger chest in front of him. On the wall behind his head appears a ballad headed by an oval bust…

Charles James Fox appears as a ragged sans-culotte with bloodstained hands and a dagger cased with blood in his belt. He joyously sings “Ca ira!” while capering his right hand on his hip and holding up his left hand. Unshaven, he wears an ill-fitting…

‘A Paris Beau’ depicts a French Revolutionary soldier wearing the bonnet-rouge. As evident in the print, Gillray regarded the soldiers as manic and barbaric individuals. This print is included in the exhibition to showcase how Gillray ultimately…

Charles François Dumouriez prepares to dine at the royal dinner table. He sits in a gothic chair, reminiscent of the Coronation chair, as Charles James Fox, William Pitt and Richard Brinsley Sheridan in the guise of cooks advance towards him wearing…

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!…

‘Shrine at St. Ann’s Hill’ depicts Charles James Fox kneeling before an altar appearing in the shape of a guillotine. Three pedestals are positioned on the altar resembling the Ten Commandments, but of ‘DROIT DE L’HOMME.’ Below these are two busts:…