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End of the Irish farce of Catholic emancipation
The inclusion of this print is to emphasize Gillray’s use of scales as a motif against the British government. Here the scales are located at the top of the print, in the center, emerging from the King’s arm. On one scale rests a book inscribed…
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…
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…
Presages of the Millenium
‘Presages of the Millenium’ shows William Pitt as Death, riding naked on the White Horse of Hanover. In his right hand he holds a flaming sword and in his left the thread-like body of a scaly monster with gaping jaws, webbed wings and a serpent’s…
The Real Cause of the present High-Price of Provisions, or, a View on the Sea Coast of England, with French Agents, smuggling away Supplies for France
In this print, ‘French Agents’ purchase sheep, cattle and pigs from Charles James Fox wearing a hat with the French tricolored cockade on it. Fox holds a bag of ‘French Gold’ which he pours into the hands of farmer-dressed William Petty. Richard…
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,…
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:…
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!…