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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…
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…
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…
The Storm rising; -or- The Republican Flotilla in danger
This print shows a windlass (right) being turned by Francis Russell, Charles James Fox—wearing a tricolored ribbon in his hair—Richard Brinsley Sheridan and George Tierney. A raft advanced diagonally from the left with a tricolored flag inscribed…
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:…