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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [16 February 1797]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 4
- 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 heaped the heads of the Foxites. The six heads at the base of the pile are (left to right): Thelwall, a little apart from the others; beside him is a paper: 'Lectures upon the Fall of the Republic by J. Thelwall' (see BMSat 8685); against his head lies the blade of a headsman's axe; Derby (in 'profil perdu'), Lauderdale, Stanhope, M. A. Taylor, and Hanger. The two central heads are Erskine and Sheridan; next the latter is Horne Tooke. Behind, and forming the apex of the pile, are the head of (?) Grey [Incorrectly identified in Wright and Evans as Wilkes. It is possible that the head here identified as Grey is Byng, and that identified as Bedford is Grey.] in profile to the left and the handsome head of (?) Bedford. In the background are clouds, and below (right) the top of a hill."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Tree of Liberty -- Foxites -- Clubs: Whig Club -- Weapons: spears -- Executioner's axe -- Allusion to Thelwall's Political Lectures., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.6 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 39.3 x 29.4 cm., Watermark, partially trimmed: J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 20 of volume 4 of 12.
- 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:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript 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]