File:Democratic leveling; Alliance a la Françoise; or the Union of the Coronet & Clyster pipe. (BM J,3.21).jpg

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Democratic leveling;_Alliance a la Françoise;_or_the Union of the Coronet & Clyster_pipe.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Hannah Humphrey
Title
Democratic leveling;_Alliance a la Françoise;_or_the Union of the Coronet & Clyster_pipe.
Description
English: 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 (see BMSat 8640). 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' (see BMSat 7867, &c). He wears surplice and bands. Sheridan stands (right) in profile to the left, reading from 'Thelwal's Lectures' (cf. BMSat 8685), he wears a lay coat with bands; both wear bonnets-rouges. On the wall which forms a background, and immediately above Fox, is a large picture, 'Shrine of Equality': three men wearing bonnets-rouges officiate at a guillotine; the blade is about to fall on a man wearing a ducal coronet; other peers stand (right) waiting their turn. On the ground by the guillotine lie coronets which have just been chopped off. 4 March 1796


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Charles James Fox
Date 1796
date QS:P571,+1796-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 361 millimetres
Width: 259 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,3.21
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) Lady Lucy Stanhope married Mr. Taylor, a surgeon of Sevenoaks, on 26 Apr, 1796; 'Citizen' Stanhope (cf. BMSat 8448, &c.) treated the match as a misalliance. Stanhope and Gooch, 'Life of Charles', third Earl Stanhope, pp. 238-9 (reproduction).

Grego, 'Gillray', p. 201. Wright and Evans, No. 146. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-3-21
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