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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…
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…
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!…
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,…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…