Image: The-Hopes-of-the-Party-Gillray

Description: The Hopes of the Party, prior to July 14th. —"From such wicked Crown & Anchor-Dreams, good Lord deliver us." SUMMARY: Satire on the dinner at the Crown and Anchor tavern and on the radicals who extolled the French Revolution. Charles James Fox raises an axe to strike the neck of George III, whose head is held by Sheridan, and legs by John Horne Tooke. Priestley and Sir Cecil Wray stand behind Sheridan. MEDIUM: 1 print : etching, hand-colored. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [London] : Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 1791 July 19th. According to Wright & Evans, Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray (1851, OCLC 59510372), p. 35, "On the supposed design of the party headed by Fox and Sheridan to enlist the people of England in the same revolutionary cause which now flourished in France. The Crown and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand, was the grand place of meeting of the Revolution Society. Lord Stanhope, who rendered himself remarkable by his strong democratic principles, was supposed at this moment to be hesitating in the part he was to take in politics. Lord Stanhope married Lady Hester Pitt, daughter of the first Lord Chatham, and sister to William Pitt, the Minister."
Title: The-Hopes-of-the-Party-Gillray
Credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-3136 (color film copy transparency), uncompressed archival TIFF version (4 MB), level color (pick white and black point), cropped, and converted to JPEG (quality level 88) with the GIMP 2.4.5.
Author: James Gillray
Permission: No known restriction on publication.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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