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1. The republican-attack [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 November 1795]
- Call Number:
- 795.11.01.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The King sits impassively in his badly damaged state coach, which is being assailed by a mob; facing him sit two courtiers in abject terror. Pitt (right), dressed as the coachman, drives furiously, lashing the horses, the hind legs only of the wheelers being visible on the extreme right. These are trampling on Britannia who lies prostrate, her shield and broken spear beneath her. Four footmen in striped liveries stand behind, one holding the straps; the others hold each other's waists: Loughborough, the Lord Chancellor, wearing his wig, stands next the coach; behind him is Grenville, then Dundas, wearing a plaid and with a bottle projecting from his coat-pocket. Last is Pepper Arden wearing a judge's wig. All, like Pitt, wear jockey-caps. Lord Lansdowne (right), a sansculotte, composedly fires a blunderbuss point-blank through the coach window, aiming at the King. Fox and Sheridan, facing Lansdowne, run beside the coach, holding on to it. Both are tattered ruffians brandishing clubs, but wear breeches. The other three assailants cling to the spokes of the back wheel to stop the coach: (left to right) the Duke of Grafton, neatly dressed and wearing a cocked hat with tricolour cockade, Lord Stanhope, and little Lord Lauderdale, both wearing bonnets-rouges. Behind, a sea of heads indicates the mob; they carry a tricolour flag inscribed 'Peace and Bread' and a loaf draped with black and spiked on a pitchfork. A cat, stones, and eggs shower on the coach, the crown on the top of which is broken."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Mob -- Attack on George III's coach on October 29, 1795 -- Coaches: royal state coach -- Crowns: broken crown -- Guns: blunderbass -- Domestic service: footmen -- Hats: jockey caps -- Bonnets rouges., and Mounted.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1795, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804
- Subject (Topic):
- Assassination attempts, Britannia (Symbolic character), Carriages & coaches, Cats, Coach drivers, Crowds, Riots, Sansculottes, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The republican-attack [graphic].
2. The zenith of French glory The pinnacle of liberty : religion, justice, loyalty, & all the bugbears of unenlighten'd minds, farewell! / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 February 1793]
- Call Number:
- 793.02.12.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A ragged sansculotte sits astride a lamp brackets high above a square where a crowd, all wearing bonnets-rouges and all watching the beheading of Louis XVI. He fiddles as he smiles down at the scene. Hanging below him from the same lamp post are two monks and a bishop, their hands bound. Further in the distance are more hung bodies and a cathedral in flames
- Alternative Title:
- Pinnacle of liberty
- Description:
- Title etched below image, left., One line of text below title: Religion, justice, loyalty, & all the bugbears of unenlighten'd minds, farewell!, and Mounted to 47 x 30 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 12th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and France.
- Subject (Name):
- Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793
- Subject (Topic):
- Death and burial, Sansculottes, History, Clergy, Crowds, Fires, Guillotines (Punishment), Hangings (Executions), Liberty cap, Revolutions, and Scales
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The zenith of French glory The pinnacle of liberty : religion, justice, loyalty, & all the bugbears of unenlighten'd minds, farewell! / [graphic]