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James Gillray
1756-1815
Confederated-coalition, or, The giants storming heaven : with, the gods alarmed for their everlasting-abodes / Js Gillray, inv. & ft.
[London] : Pubd May 1st 1804, by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street, [1804]
etching, hand colored
image: 400 x 324 mm; plate mark: 463 x 334 mm; sheet: 470 x 341 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.240
Notes
Text below caption title: "They never complain'd of Fatigue, but like Giants refreshed, were ready to enter immediately upon the attack! Vide Lord Ch . . c . ll. r's Speech 24th [i.e. 20th] April 1804. "Not to destroy! but root them out of Heaven." Milton.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the 'Gods' of the Addington administration (Hawkesbury, Addington, and St. Vincent) leaning down from the clouds to defend the 'Treasury' against the assault of the 'Giants', represented by different groups of the Opposition forming a pyramid in the lower part of the design. These are identified by sources as: Pitt, Dundas, Fox, Wilberforce, Canning, Rose, Long, Lord Grenville, Buckingham, Norfolk, Carlisle, Burdett, Windham, Sheridan, French Laurence, Lord Spencer, Lord Stanhope, M.A. Taylor, Lord Grey, Lord Derby, Tierney, Erskine, and Tyrwhitt Jones.
Associated names
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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Classification
Department
Century prints
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