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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…
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…
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…
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…
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!…
Shrine at St. Ann's Hill
‘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:…
The tree of Liberty, -with, the Devil tempting John Bull
This print shows Charles James Fox as a twined serpent, slithering round a bare and decayed oak tree. His scaly tail is coiled round the upper branches of the tree and its tip issues from a large bonnet-rouge reading ‘Liberté.’ He holds out a damaged…
Promis'd Horrors of the French Invasion, or Forcible reasons for negotiating a regicide peace
French troops with fixed bayonets march up St. James’s Street. In the center foreground a ‘tree of Liberty” has been planted, topped with the bonnet-rouge. To the pole of the ‘tree’ William Pitt, stripped to the waist, is tied. Charles James Fox,…
The tree of liberty must be planted immediately!-
The Tree of Liberty, often (in fact) a pole surmounted by a bonnet-rouge, is here a pike on which is the bleeding head of Charles James Fox. His eyes are covered by red cap (very similar to the bonnet-rouge) inscribed ‘Libertas.’ At the base of the…
The hopes of the party! Or the darling children of Democracy!
William Holland’s print shows a monstrous depiction of ‘Democracy’ wearing the bonnet-rouge sitting on a type of stone or stump. Two manikins sit on each of her knees: on the left, Charles James Fox and the right John Horne Tooke, who also wear the…