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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…
The Hand-Writing upon the Wall
‘The Hand-Writing upon the Wall’ depicts Napoleon presiding at a feast with Josephine on his left. Emerging from the clouds above him, a pair of scales is held: one, inscribed ‘Vive le Roi,’ contains a crown and outweighs the other, ‘Despotism,’…
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…
Tom Paine's Nightly Pest
This print shows Thomas Paine sleeping wearing a red cap inscribed ‘Libertas.’ On the head of his bed are drawn the profile heads, with wings, of his guardian angels: Priestly (right) and Fox (left). In the background the scales appear, evenly…
Jack a Both Sides!
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…
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…
Design for the Naval Pillar
James Gillray's 'Design for the Naval Pillar,' the image the exhibition focuses around, displays a statued configured of high relief objects standing upon a rock in a story sea. The base is supported by two figures: Fortitude, with a lion, resting…