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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…