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1. Fashion before ease, or, A good constitution sacrificed for a fantastick form [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [2 January 1793]
Call Number:: 793.01.02.02+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Britannia (left), a buxom young woman, clasps the trunk of a large oak, while Paine tugs with both hands at her stay-lace, placing a large foot on her posteriors. He wears blue and buff with a tricolour cockade on his bonnet rouge. From his coat pocket protrudes a pair of scissors and a tape inscribed: 'Rights of Man'. His face is blotched with drink and his expression is fiercely intent, but he is neatly dressed. Behind him is a thatched cottage inscribed: 'Thomas Pain, Stay-maker from Thetford. Paris Modes, by express.' Britannia looks over her shoulder at the stay-maker (cf. British Museum Satires No. 9240) with an expression of pained reproach. Her shield leans against the tree; her spear is on the ground; across it lies an olive-branch."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Good constitution sacrificed for a fantastick form
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Female costume: stays -- Emblems: tri-colored cockade -- Male costume: bonnet rouge -- Reference to tailors -- Literature: Thomas Paine's Rights of Man -- Allusion to French Revolution -- Reference to Thetford and Paine's stay-making past -- Britannia's shield -- Symbols: olive branch., and Mounted to 42 x 30 cm.
Publisher:: Pubd. Jany. 2d, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
Subject (Topic):: Britannia (Symbolic character), Corsets, Scissors & shears, Liberty cap, Shields, Spears, and Olive branches
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Fashion before ease, or, A good constitution sacrificed for a fantastick form [graphic]

2. Rights of man alias French liberty alias entering volunteers for the republic [graphic]

Creator:: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:: [7 May 1791, that is 1793?]
Call Number:: 791.05.07.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Three grotesque French officers forceably recruit a gang of emaciated, terrified-looking Frenchman. Of the several men who have been thrown over the back of a horse, one has had a pole thrust into his posterior; at the top of the pole is a liberty cap. The wife and children of one man who has been tied to the back of the horse, cling in desperation to his ragged clothes, as they are dragged along behind him
Description:: Title from item., Publication year possibly an engraver's error for 1793 as the Republic was not proclaimed until 22 September 1792 and while the first execution by guillotine took place in April 1792, it was, early on, called La Louisette. See C.D. Hazen's French Revolution (1932), i., page 384 and British Museum catalogue v. 6, no. 7853., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: where may be seen a compleate model of the guilotine [sic], also the largest collection of caracaturs [sic] in the Kingdm., the head & hand of Count Streuenzee, &c. Admit. 1., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: F & P.
Publisher:: Pub. May 7, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):: France
Subject (Topic):: History, Foreign public opinion, British, Guillotines (Punishment), Liberty cap, and Starvation
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Rights of man alias French liberty alias entering volunteers for the republic [graphic]

3. Sans-culottes feeding Europe with the bread of liberty [graphic].

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [12 January 1793]
Call Number:: 793.01.12.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: At the center of the sheet stands John Bull, hands clasped in prayer, as Sheridan and Fox force the bread of liberty into his wide open mouth as they pick his pocket. On either side of the three stands a gallows and the Temple Bar. In each of the four corners in similar scenes, labelled clockwise from upper left, Holland, Savoy, German & Prussia, red-capped French sansculottes try to force the bread of liberty down recognizable national stereotypes from these four nations as they loot the terrfied citizens
Alternative Title:: Sansculottes feeding Europe with the bread of liberty
Description:: Title from text in image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge.
Publisher:: Pubd. Jany. 12st [sic], 1793, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):: France
Subject (Name):: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic):: John Bull (Symbolic character), Girondists, Sansculottes, Liberty, Liberty cap, Popes, History, and Foreign relations
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Sans-culottes feeding Europe with the bread of liberty [graphic].

4. The fallen angel! [graphic].

Published / Created:: [approximately 1793]
Call Number:: 793.00.00.02 Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Fox sits on the ground, full-face, his fingers together, scowling disconsolately. He holds the staff of liberty, broken, with a tattered cap of 'Liberty' inscribed 'Sedition \ Equality \ Rebell[ion]' about to fall from it. Flames rise on both sides inscribed: (left) 'A People rouz'd', and (right) 'Popular Resentment'. Beneath the title is etched: 'Ubi lapsus Quid feci? Such place eternal justice has prepar'd For those rebellious------ Vide Milton's Paradise Lost'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... who has again open'd his carricature exhibition rooms to which he has added several hundred old & new subjects., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 37 x 30 cm.
Publisher:: Publish'd by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly ...
Subject (Name):: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):: Liberty cap
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The fallen angel! [graphic].

5. The slough of despond vide The Patriot's Progress / [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [2 January 1793]
Call Number:: 793.01.02.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The head and shoulders of Fox (like Christian in 'The Pilgrim's Progress') emerge from a pool of liquid mire; he looks despairingly up and to the right, his (half-submerged) hands raised in supplication. On his back is a bundle inscribed 'Contents French Gold, French Loyalty, French Daggers [cf. BMSat 8285, &c.], And Crimes, more num'rous than the sands, upon the Ocean's shore.' His hat has fallen off, the tricolour cockade and motto 'Ca ira' are half submerged. His large club rises from the slough: 'Patriots Staff - i.e. Whig Club' [cf. BMSat 8987, &c.]. Before him floats an open book: 'Gospel of Liberty by the four Evangelists St Paine St Price St Priestly St Petion [see BMSat 8122] \ Fly to the Wrath to come." Fox says: "Help! Help! - will no kind Power lend a hand to deliver me ? - Oh! what will become of me ? - all my former Friends have forsaken me! - if I try to go on, I sink deeper in the Filth; & my feet are stuck so fast in the Mire, that I can not get back, 'tho I try; - Ah me! - this Burden upon my Back overwhelm's me, & presses me down! - I shall Rise no more! - I am lost for ever, & shall never see the Promis'd Land!!" From the slough a hill ascends up which a straight path leads to a fortified gateway in a castellated wall inscribed: 'Knock, & it shall be opened. The Straight Gate: or the way to the Patriots Paradise.' From it flies a flag of 'Libertas', surmounted with the cap of Liberty. Within the wall is a ladder slanting towards a waning moon. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Three lines of text from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress quoted to the right of title: "This miry slough is such a place as can not be mended ...", and Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:: Pubd. Jany. 2d, 1793, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):: France
Subject (Name):: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804., Pétion, J. 1756-1794. (Jérôme),, and Price, RIchard, 1723-1791.
Subject (Topic):: History and Liberty cap
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The slough of despond vide The Patriot's Progress / [graphic]

6. 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]