‘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:…
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,…
Richard Brothers, dressed as a sans-culotte carries on his back a ‘Bundle of the Elect’ from which protrudes the heads and legs of Charles James Fox, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Charles Stanhope and William Petty. All figures wear the bonnet-rouge.…
In this print, ‘French Agents’ purchase sheep, cattle and pigs from Charles James Fox wearing a hat with the French tricolored cockade on it. Fox holds a bag of ‘French Gold’ which he pours into the hands of farmer-dressed William Petty. Richard…
‘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…
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…