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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [16 February 1797]
- Call Number:
- 797.02.16.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Tree of Liberty (cf. BMSat 9214), often (in fact) a pole surmounted by a bonnet-rouge, is here a pike on which is the bleeding head of Fox, the eyes covered by a cap inscribed 'Libertas'. Round the base of the pike and on a grassy mound are heape...
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 16th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, and Thelwall, John, 1764-1834
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Tree of Liberty must be planted immediately! this is the something which must be done and that quickly too! to save the country from destruction. Vide sentments of Whig Club, Feby. 14th, 1797 / [graphic]









