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A Democrat, -or- Reason & Philosophy
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…
Tags: Bonnet-rouge, Charles James Fox
A Paris Beau
‘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…
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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…
Britannia between death and the doctor's
This print shows Britannia, propped up by pillows, lazily holding her spear. William Pitt, the new doctor, kicks Henry Addington through the door. His left foot stands on the face of Charles James Fox who lies on the ground with the bonnet-rouge in…
Design for the Naval Pillar
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…
Dumourier dining in state at St. James's, on the 15th of May, 1793
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…
Fashion before ease;-or,-a good constitution sacrificed, for a fantastick form
Britannia is shown on the left grasping the trunk of a large oak tree while Thomas Paine tugs with both hands at her stay-lace. He wears bonnet-rouge with a tricolored cockade and from his pockets protrudes a pair of scissors and a tape inscribed:…
Tags: Bonnet-rouge, Britannia, Thomas Paine
John Bull humbugg'd alias both-ear'd
This print depicts (L to R) Charles James Fox, King George III and William Pitt. The King faces Pitt who addressed him through a horn used by news-boys for crying their wares. Fox stands behind the King, wearing the bonnet-rouge and also addressing…
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…
Tags: Bonnet-rouge, Charles Howard, Charles James Fox, Charles Stanhope, Edward Smith-Stanley, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Francis Russell, George Tierney, George Walpole, John Horne Tooke, Michael Angelo Taylor, Sir Francis Burdett, Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn, Sir John Sinclair, Sir William Pulteney, Thomas Erskine
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!…