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Dumourier dining in state at St. James's, on the 15th of May, 1793
Charles François Dumouriez prepares to dine at the royal dinner table. He sits in a gothic chair, reminiscent of the Coronation chair, as Charles James Fox, William Pitt and Richard Brinsley Sheridan in the guise of cooks advance towards him wearing…
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 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…
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…
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,…
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…
Retribution; -tarring and feathering; -or- the patriots revenge
This print shows William Pitt, thickly coated in feathers, standing between Richard Brinsley Sheridan (left) and Charles James Fox (right). Fox is much caricatured, and grinning broadly as he pushed a dripping mop into Pitt’s face. Sheridan raises a…
The genius of France triumphant, -or- Britannia petitioning for peace. -Vide, The Proposals of Opposition
Britannia is here shown groveling before a monster representing the French Republic. Behind her stand Charles James Fox, Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Charles Stanhope, all wearing the bonnet-rouge. The French monster is supported by a bed of dark…