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Recruiting on a broab [sic] bottom'd principle
Wyndham stands in a Grenadlier uniform, holding a pike and addressing Castlereagh. Fox stands on his left, very ragged, beating the drum and wearing the bonnet-rouge. Behind Wyndham stands Sheridan, tattered and dilapidated, holding a Union flag flag…
The Political Hydra
This print features six heads, full-face, of Charles James Fox arranged in a row. Beneath each head is an inscription: [1] 'Out of Place In Character,' [2] 'In Place Out of Character,' [3] 'As he might have been' [4] 'As he wod have been,' [5] 'As…
The Cabinetical Balance
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…
Patriotic regeneration, -viz.-parliament reform'd, a la francoise, -thatis- honest men (i.e.-opposition.) in the seat of justice. Vide Carmagnol Expectations
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…
Tom Paine's Nightly Pest
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…
Political mathematician's, shaking the Broad Bottom'd hemispheres
Gillray even included images of a weakened Britannia in the background of prints, as evident in ‘Political mathematician’s, shaking the Broad Bottom’d hemispheres.’ In this print, she is placed in the background (left) seated on a rock, leaning…
A Phantasmagoria; -scene-Conjuring-up an Armed Skeleton
In this print, Henry Addington, Hawkesbury and Charles James Fox are guised as the three witches in Macbeth. They cool their hell-broth in a cauldron, which the skeleton of Britannia stands in. Fox (right) is shown wearing the bonnet-rouge, seemingly…
Political-dreamings! -visions of peace! -perspective horrors!
William Windham, uncaricatured, lies in bed dreaming. On the left side of the print the figure of Death, a skeleton form straddles a pile of British trophies. By the foot of the bed, a fat demon with the features of Charles James Fox, with a barbed…
Meeting of the Monied Interest
Charles James Fox stands in the center of the print, declaiming violently to his surrounding supporters. He states: “Gentlemen; -we are all ruin’d we sha’n’t have Five Guineas left to make a Bett with!-one Tenth dead, without a single throw of the…
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…