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A peep into the cave of Jacobinism.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: John Wright
Title
A peep into the cave of Jacobinism.
Description
English: Frontispiece from vol. i of the 'Review'. 'Truth', fully draped, her name on her belt, hurries forward, holding up an irradiated torch which directs darts of lightning at creatures in the mouth of a cave (left). This is formed by an arch of rocks, from which 'The Lethean Stream' emerges. Jacobinism, a creature with scaly legs and long serpent-like tail (like 'Sin' in BMSat 8105), naked except for bonnet-rouge and a belt inscribed 'Egalit[é]' in which is a dagger, kneels terror-struck, shrinking from the darts of Truth; he drops his pen and a mask falls from his face. His ink-bottle, inscribed 'Gall', is overturned. Beside him is a heap of pamphlets, which the lightning from Truth's torch has set on fire. They are 'Libels', 'Defamation', 'Sedition', 'Ignorance', 'Anarchy', 'Atheism', 'Abuse'. Toads crawl from under them and drop into the adjacent 'Lethean Stream'. Owls and bats fly off into the recesses of the cave. On Truth's forehead is an irradiated star; she points up with her left hand at an open book resting upon clouds: 'Anti-Jacobin Review & Mag[azine]'. Above her head fly two winged infants holding up between them a crown; one holds the cross of Religion, the other the scales of Justice. After the title is etched "Magna est Veritas et prævalebit" [the motto of the review]. 1 September 1798
Hand-coloured etching
Date 1798
date QS:P571,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 248 millimetres
Width: 191 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.931
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

John Gifford (J. R. Green) started the 'Review' when the 'Anti-Jacobin' ended. The latter, in a footnote to its last number, said: '... we have no knowledge of the Undertaking, but from report, which speaks favourably of it; but we heartily wish this, and every Work of a similar kind, a full and happy Success.' See BMSats 9240, 9345. Coloured impressions of the plates are in B.M.L., P.P. 3596, uncoloured in B.M.L. 261. i. I, &c.
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