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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 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…
The Hand-Writing upon the Wall
‘The Hand-Writing upon the Wall’ depicts Napoleon presiding at a feast with Josephine on his left. Emerging from the clouds above him, a pair of scales is held: one, inscribed ‘Vive le Roi,’ contains a crown and outweighs the other, ‘Despotism,’…
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…
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…
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…
The first kiss this ten years! -or- the meeting of Britannia & Citizen François
This print shows Britannia, fat, good-natured and richly dressed, being kissed by a tall and lean French military officer. He says: ‘Madame, permittez me, to pay my profound esteem to your engaging person! & to seal on your divine Lips my everlasting…
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 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!…