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Charon's boat, or, The ghosts of "all the talents" taking their last voyage : from the Pope's gallery at Rome / Js. Gillray, fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815

Charon's boat, or, The ghosts of "all the talents" taking their last voyage : from the Pope's gallery at Rome / Js. Gillray, fect.

[London] : Publish'd July 16th 1807, by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street , [1807]
etching and aquatint, hand colored
image: 232 x 344 mm; plate mark: 246 x 350 mm; sheet: 313 x 490 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.246
Notes
Satire on the dismissal of the Grenville administration.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows a group of naked Whig politicians, including Lord Grenville, Sheridan, St. Vincent, Moira, Temple, Erskine, Howick, Petty, Whitbread, Windham, and George Pretyman, Bishop of Lincoln, crossing the river Styx in a boat named the Broad Bottom Packet. Sidmouth's head emerges from the water next to the boat. The boat's torn sail has inscription "Catholic Emancipation" and the center mast is crowned with the Prince of Wales feathers and motto "Ich Dien". On the far side the shades of Cromwell, Charles Fox and Robespierre wave to them. Overhead, on brooms, are Canning, Castlereagh, and Lord Hawkesbury, shown as the Three Fates; to the left is the three-headed dog Cerberus. Above the boat three birds soil the boat and politicians.

Associated names
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints