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Description: The Nuptial-Bower;—with the Evil-One, peeping at the Charms of Eden. from Milton Js. Gy. inv. & fect. SUMMARY: Cartoon shows William Pitt escorting Eleanor Eden to a vine-shaded bower within which are three large sacks with the British pound symbol on them, possibly representing Pitt's debt. Bunches of grapes, crowns, and medallions, suspended from ribbons, hang from the bower. A devil-like creature, "the Evil-One", representing Charles James Fox, peers around the bower from the right. MEDIUM: 1 print : etching, hand-colored. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [London] : Pubd. by H. Humphrey, 1797 Feby. 13th. Also see Wright & Evans, Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray (1851, OCLC 59510372), pp. 95–8.
Title: Nuptial-Bower-Gillray
Credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-8793 (color film copy transparency), uncompressed archival TIFF version (49 MB), level color (pick white point, adjust black level), cropped, and converted to JPEG (quality level 88) with the GIMP 2.4.5.
Author: James Gillray
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License: Public domain
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