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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…

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,…

‘King William IV (A true British tar)’ depicts the Duke Clarence (later King William IV) as a British Jack Tar. The print is a mockery against the Duke’s unsuccessful naval attempts, demoting him to a pouting seaman of the common masses. Gillray has…