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Le coup de maitre.-   (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: Hannah Humphrey
Title
Le coup de maitre.-
Description
English: Fox (right), a hairy French ruffian, lunges fiercely forward, to aim a pistol inscribed 'La Mort' point-blank at a target symbolizing the British constitution (see BMSat 8287, &c). In his left hand he holds behind him a dagger, its blade inscribed 'Fraternite'. He is coatless and wears a French cocked hat inscribed 'Liberte', with a tricolour cockade. A miniature bonnet-rouge inscribed 'Egalite' hangs from the lapel of his waistcoat. From one pocket hangs a paper: '2 7bre Certificat de Civisme'; from another: 'Delenda . . . Carth[ago]'. His shirt-sleeves are rolled, the right sleeve in tatters, his breeches torn and unbuttoned at the knee, his stockings hang in festoons round his ankles. The target hangs by a ribbon from the gnarled branch of an old oak (left), the bull's-eye is the crown, the inner ring is inscribed 'Lords', the outer 'Commons'. There is a landscape background. After the title: 'This Print copied from the French Original, is dedicated to the London Corresponding Society.' 24 November 1797
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Charles James Fox
Date 1797
date QS:P571,+1797-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 265 millimetres
Width: 362 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,3.98
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) One of many satires on Fox as a furious Jacobin, cf. BMSat 8310. The date on his 'Certificat . . .' implies that he has earned it for services rendered in the September massacres, cf. BMSat 8122. On 1 Aug. 1793 Barère said, in the name of the Committee of Public Safety, 'La Carthage moderne sera détruite.' Sorel, 'Bonaparte et Hoche', p. 252. For the London Corresponding Society see BMSat 9189, &c.

Grego, 'Gillray', pp. 222-3. Wright and Evans, No. 203. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-3-98
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