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| Keywords: The-Hopes-of-the-Party-Gillray.jpeg The Hopes of the Party prior to July 14<sup>th</sup> ” 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 Library of Congress Prints Photographs Division LC-USZC4-3136 color film copy transparency http //memory loc gov/master/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g03000/3g03100/3g03136u tif 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 1791-07-19 creator James Gillray No known restriction on publication LOC-image cph 3g03136 PD-old-100 James Gillray Caricatures of the United Kingdom Caricatures of George III of the United Kingdom Charles James Fox Richard Brinsley Sheridan Beheadings in art | ||||
