BM8787-democratic-leveling-1830-0463
identifier:
BM8787-democratic-leveling-1830-0463
title:
Democratic Leveling -- Alliance a la Francoise -- or -- The Union of the Coronet and Clyster Pipe
date:
March 4, 1796
description:
Fox and Sheridan officiate at the wedding of Lady Lucy Stanhope and an apothecary who is made up of medical implements. The bride is a pretty girl wearing a feathered hat from which a transparent veil falls over her face. Stanhope, without breeches, and wearing a bonnet-rouge, pushes her towards the bridegroom who is placing a ring on her finger; from his coat-pocket protrudes a three-masted vessel flying a tricolour flag. Taylor, the bridegroom, is a sansculotte; his posteriors are formed of a syringe, his body is a mortar, from which issues a pestle supporting a bonnet-rouge. His arm is made of two medicine-phials. Fox stands behind the altar balustrade holding open Paine's 'Rights of Man'. He wears surplice and bands. Sheridan stands reading from 'Thelwal's Lectures', he wears a lay coat with bands; both wear bonnets-rouges. On the wall immediately above Fox is a large picture, 'Shrine of Equality': three men wearing bonnets-rouges officiate at a guillotine; the blade is about to fall on a man wearing a ducal coronet; other peers stand waiting their turn. On the ground by the guillotine lie coronets which have just been chopped off. Source: George.
description:
British Museum #8787
format:
36 cm x 26 cm
type:
Paper
type:
Etching, hand-colored
coverage:
London, England
relation:
LUCA2016.14 1830
subject:
Charles James Fox
subject:
Thomas Paine
subject:
Richard Brinsely Sheridan
subject:
Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope
subject:
Lady Lucy Rachel Stanhope
subject:
Thomas Taylor
subject:
John Thelwall
subject:
Satire
subject:
Great Britain
creator:
Gillray, James
relation:
Michalak Collection
source:
Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections