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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…
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…
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…
Jack a Both Sides!
In this print Frederick North is shown, balancing on his left toe, on the center of a beam of a pair of scales. He stands so that the scale on which Fox is standing (right) rests on the ground, while that on which Shelburne stands is in the air. From…
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…
Physical Aid, -or-Britannia recover'd from a trance;-also, the patriotic courage of Sherry Andrew: & a peep thro' the Frog
In this print, Britannia is terrified, faint and disheveled while she sits on the ground and is supported by Addington and Hawkesbury and defended by Sheridan. The background (right) shows French troops advancing towards the shore, with Napoleon…
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…