TITLE: The hopes of the party, prior to July 14th "from such wicked crown & anchor-dreams, good Lord deliver us". CALL NUMBER: PC 1 - 7892 (B size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-3136 (color film copy transparency)LC-USZ62-94204 (b&w film copy neg.) RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY: Satire on the dinner at the Crown and Anchor tavern and on the radicals who extolled the French Revolution. Charles James Fox raises an axe to strike the neck of George III, whose head is held by Sheridan, and legs by John Horne Tooke. Priestley and Sir Cecil Wray stand behind Sheridan. MEDIUM: 1 print : etching, hand-colored. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [London] : Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 1791 July 19th. CREATOR: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist. NOTES: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7892 Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: Gillray and the Art of Caricature. SUBJECTS: George--III,--King of Great Britain,--1738-1820. Tooke, John Horne,--1736-1812. Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806. Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,--1751-1816. Wray, Cecil,--Sir,--1734-1805. Politics & government--Great Britain--1790-1800. Decapitations--Great Britain--1790-1800. Revolutionaries--Great Britain--1790-1800. FORMAT: Cartoons (Commentary) British 1790-1800.Etchings Hand-colored 1790-1800. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (color film copy transparency) cph 3g03136 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g03136 (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b40372 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b40372 CONTROL #: 92518035
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