True reform of Parliament, i.e., Patriots lighting a revolutionary-bonfire in New Palace Yard [graphic] / Js. Gillray inv. & fect.
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Description
- Title
- True reform of Parliament, i.e., Patriots lighting a revolutionary-bonfire in New Palace Yard [graphic] / Js. Gillray inv. & fect.
- Alternative Title
- Patriots lighting a revolutionary bonfire in New Palace Yard
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Contributor
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Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville,--Marquess of,--1753-1813--Caricatures and cartoons.
Burdett, Francis,--1770-1844--Caricatures and cartoons.
Cobbett, William,--1763-1835--Caricatures and cartoons.
Grattan, Henry,--1746-1820--Caricatures and cartoons.
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville,--Baron,--1759-1834--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Radnor, William Pleydell-Bouverie,--Earl of,--1779-1869--Caricatures and cartoons.
Tooke, John Horne,--1736-1812--Caricatures and cartoons.
Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd,--1762?-1833--Caricatures and cartoons.
Whitbread, Samuel,--1764-1815--Caricatures and cartoons. - Copyright Date
- [14 June 1809]
- Abstract
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"Sir Francis Burdett declaims, holding up a bonnet rouge shaped like a fool's cap; he addresses those who are making a bonfire of statutes, &c., on the cobbles of Palace Yard (left). His raised left arm is flung back, pointing towards Westminster Hall, which is being stoned and demolished by a mob. He says: "It is only in the House of Commons / "that the People of England are spoken of / "with Contempt, & calumniated!!!-- / "--can things be remedied by Bills? No!-- / "it must be by an Honest House of "Commons!--what is the use of Magna-Charta, Habeas-Corpus, / "or the Bill of Rights?-- / See, my own Speech at Westminster--Vide, "Cobbett's Patriotic Register. He tramples on a sceptre beside which lies a crown, reversed and covered by a long scroll: Resolution[s] of the Whig-Club; Resolved--That it is the decided Opinion of this Club that no Substantial & permament [sic] Good can be derived by the Country, from any change of Ministry, unless accompanied by an entire change of Systemn--accomplish'd by an entire Reform of the Parliament. A great pile of documents with a Holy Bible in the centre, is ready for the flames; Horne Tooke, in bonnet rouge, dressing-gown, and slippers, kneels at Burdett's feet, holding a dark lantern (as in No. 10738), and applying a flaming brand, inscribed Sedition, to the pile. Three simian and negroid creatures holding papers like sub-human newsboys, as in Gillray's New Morality [No. 9240], apply torches to the pile. One, with a tartan cloth round its waist, holds the Edinburgh Review, another the Morning Chronicle; the third wears a wig inscribed Independ[ent] Wig. Under Tooke's firebrand are the Rights of the House of Brunswick to the Throne Brunswick Succession; Magna Charta; Bill of Rights; Habeas Corpus. Other documents are Act for Punishing Libelers of the State, and Act to Suppress Inflamatory Libels (attacked by the Independent Wig and Morning Chronicle respectively); Legal Authorities; Rights of the Establish'd Church; Rights of the House of Lords; Priviliges of the He of Commons; Act of Protestant Succession; Freedom of Election; Old-Bailey Trials. ..."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description
- Title etched below image.
- Extent
- 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 29.9 x 41.5 cm, on sheet 33.6 x 46.1 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 6
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- still image
- Genre
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Etchings--England--London--1809.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1809. - Subject (Name)
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Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville,--Marquess of,--1753-1813--Caricatures and cartoons.
Burdett, Francis,--1770-1844--Caricatures and cartoons.
Cobbett, William,--1763-1835--Caricatures and cartoons.
Grattan, Henry,--1746-1820--Caricatures and cartoons.
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville,--Baron,--1759-1834--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Radnor, William Pleydell-Bouverie,--Earl of,--1779-1869--Caricatures and cartoons.
Tooke, John Horne,--1736-1812--Caricatures and cartoons.
Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd,--1762?-1833--Caricatures and cartoons.
Whitbread, Samuel,--1764-1815--Caricatures and cartoons.
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
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Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 11338
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 357
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 364
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 12479101
- Object ID (OID)
- 11858976