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Consequences of a successful French invasion. - No. VI - plate 2d.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

After: Sir John Dalrymple
Published by: James Gillray
Title
Consequences of a successful French invasion. - No. VI - plate 2d.
Description
English: The title continues: 'We fly on the Wings of the Wind to save the Irish Catholics from Persecution. - Scene. The Front of a Popish Chapel.' Beneath the title: 'Description. A Priest driven out of his Chapel, A French Soldier trampling on Crucifixes & Mitres, another kicking the Priest, a Gracefull Old Man; & a third stabbing him with a Dagger behind: A "Membre de la haute Cour de Justice" (in English a Member of the high Court of Justice, in his habit of Office, who has learnt to speak the English Language well, by going much to the Play-House, (having been long a Player himself,) says in the words of Othello - "Good, \ "very Good, the Justice, of it pleases, even on the \ "Stage of his own Imposition," - and it is \ "thus, that, the Gratitude of the French Republic "always pays Three Favours for One." - ' [Dalrymple, op. cit., p. 37.]


Two ferocious soldiers wearing jack-boots pull and push the priest (in lace-trimmed cotta) from the door of a gothic church (right). A third jumps on a Bible and crucifix, part of a pile of crosier, mitre, chalice, censer (still burning), &c. On the cross which surmounts the door is a Phrygian cap of 'Liberté'. From a niche inscribed 'Ecce Homo' a crucifix has been torn, leaving only a crown of thorns and a skull and cross-bones. In the corresponding niche is a headless figure of 'Santè Marie', clasping a headless infant, burlesqued (in Gillray's manner when dealing with emblems of 'Popery', cf. BMSat 6026). On the left the 'Member of the high-court' walks past with folded arms, looking sideways with a sinister glare at the outrage. He wears the draperies and cap of BMSat 9209. 6 March 1798


Hand-coloured etching.
Date 1798
date QS:P571,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 400 millimetres
Width: 353 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.10382
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) See BMSat 9180. Dalrymple wrote to Gillray (n.d.): 'The Irish Roman Catholic one is excellently executed & will do Good in Ireland in opening the eyes of these poor people. I shall send it there.' B.M. Add. MSS. 27337, fo. 20. On 6 Mar. he asked for six copies of 'the Popish Engraving' with which to try to obtain Treasury support for the undertaking. Ibid., fo. 22. Cf. BMSat 8979. Grego, 'Gillray', p. 236. Wright and Evans, No. 180. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830. Reproduced, Wheeler and Broadley, i. 140.

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The second of four plates on the 'Consequences of a Successful French Invasion' etched by Gillray from descriptions by Sir John Dalrymple, the descriptions etched below or, in this case, on the plates.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-10382
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