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Democratic levelling; - alliance a la Francoise, or, The union of the coronet and clysterpipe / [Gillray].

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James Gillray

Democratic levelling; - alliance a la Francoise, or, The union of the coronet and clysterpipe / [Gillray].

Published

[London] : H. Humphrey, 1796.

hand colored etching
image: 34.3 x 24.5 cm; plate: 36.3 x 26 cm; sheet: 37.8 x 27.3 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2929
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

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 (left), without breeches, and wearing a bonnet-rouge, stooping in profile to the right, 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. The bridegroom, Taylor, is also 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 full-face behind the altar balustrade holding open Paine's 'Rights of Man'. Sheridan stands (right) in profile to the left, reading from 'Thelwal's Lectures', he wears a lay coat with bands; both wear bonnets-rouges.

Associated names
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraver.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
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