File:Consequences of a successful French invasion -No 1. Plate 1st- (BM 1868,0808.10378).jpg
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[edit]Consequences of a successful French invasion -No 1. Plate 1st-
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Artist |
Print made by: James Gillray
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Title |
Consequences of a successful French invasion -No 1. Plate 1st- |
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Description |
English: The title continues: '- "We come to recover your long lost Liberties." - Scene. The House of Commons.' Under the title, and from a separate plate, is etched in three columns: 'Description. - One French Soldier putting Hand-cuffs, and another Fetters on the Speaker, whose Mouth is gagged with a Drumstick. The rest of the Members [left], two & two, tied together by the Arms with cords, (Mr Pitt & Mr Dundas by the Leg with an Iron Chain, which has three Padlocks, but the Key-holes spiked up). They are all, dressed in the Uniform of the Convicts of Botany-Bay, to wit, Coats of two Colours, long Breeches [i.e. trousers], no Stockings, & their Heads close shaved; French Guards opposite to the Members, with their Hats on; one of whom carries an Axe, & a Blazon of a Death's Head on his Breast. Two Clerks near him with their Pens in their Ears, hanging their Heads [tied back to back]. Republicans in the Galleries waving their Hats, in which are triple-colour'd Cockades, & clapping their Hands. An English Blacksmith [right], in his Waistcoat & Cap of Liberty, breaking ye Mace in pieces with a fore Hammer, the Statutes tumbled on the Floor, the Cap of Liberty [inscribed 'Egalité'] raised high behind the Speaker's Chair, below which is painted in Capital Letters, " This House adjourned to Botany Bay - sine die." The Chaffers and burning Charcoal continuing to stand in their present places in the House, but filled with red-hot Irons, to sear One Cheek of the Members before they set off; & the Other, if they shall be found Guilty, by the Verdict of a French Jury, of returning to their own Country without Leave of the French Directory in Writing. An English Cobler in the Cap of Liberty, blowing with a Bellows one of the Chaffers the Fuel, the Journals of the House.' [Dalrymple, op. cit. inf., pp. 1-2.]
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Depicted people | Associated with: Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1798 date QS:P571,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.10378 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) One of a set of four plates, see BMSats 9181-3, etched by Gillray from descriptions by Dalrymple. The descriptions (etched on or below the plates) appeared first in a pamphlet announcing and describing in all twenty plates (in ten 'Numbers'). The declared object was to combine, for propaganda, print and descriptive comment, the latter provided by Dalrymple, who guaranteed the cost of publication, the prints to be sold at sixpence (a shilling coloured) instead of the usual two shillings. Subscriptions were invited. Dalrymple, 'Consequences of the French Invasion', 1798. Difficulties arose and four plates only were published. Letters from Dalrymple and drafts of letters from Gillray to Dalrymple are in B.M. Add. 27337, ff. 17-28. Gillray found the price inadequate (cf. BMSat 9186, &c.) and disliked Dalrymple's suggestions, and on 16 Mar. he wrote that 'the loss . . . upon the four already done . . . joined to the trouble, & repeated disappointment he has had in ye business, obliges him positively to decline having any thing more to do with it'. He sold the four plates to Miss Humphrey. For the threat of invasion see BMSat 9160, &c. Cf. BMSat 8624. Grego, 'Gillray', p. 236. Wright and Evans, No. 178. 'London und Paris', i, 1798, p. 24. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830. Reproduced, Broadley, i. 108. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-10378 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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