File:Light Expelling darkness, - evaporation of Stygian exhalations,-or- The sun of the constitution, rising superior to the clouds of opposition. (BM 1868,0808.10377).jpg
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editLight Expelling darkness, - evaporation of Stygian exhalations,-or- The sun of the constitution, rising superior to the clouds of opposition. ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
Print made by: James Gillray
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Title |
Light Expelling darkness, - evaporation of Stygian exhalations,-or- The sun of the constitution, rising superior to the clouds of opposition. |
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Description |
English: Pitt as, a Roman charioteer, wearing a laurel wreath, is seated in an ornate chariot drawn (left to right) by the British Lion and the White Horse of Hanover (cf. BMSat 8691). He holds the reins, but scarcely controls the galloping pair. One foot rests on a shield bearing a fanged serpent, and wreathed with serpents, inscribed: 'Exit Python Republicanus'. Behind him is a book decorated with a lyre inscribed 'Magna Charta'. Ornate projections from the back of the chariot support the disk of the 'Sun of the Constitution': the Hebrew letters for Jehovah are surrounded by the words COMMONS . KING . LORDS; this is irradiated, the royal arms being etched partly on the sun, partly on its rays, and immediately behind Pitt. Two cherubs fly behind the chariot and on the extreme left; one holds up a 'Bible', the other a family tree of the 'Brunswick Succession': from the base, inscribed 'Ge III', rises 'G IV', from whose circle sprout five stems; beneath is inscribed: 'And future Kings, and Monarchs yet unborn'. A fringed cloth on the back of the horse is covered by the royal arms; one on the lion has Britannia, seated as on coins, but holding up a dagger in one hand, a birch-rod in the other. Both animals dash furiously forward in pursuit of the Opposition. The horse snorts fire; from his forehead thunderbolts dart towards the fugitives.
Hand-coloured etching |
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Depicted people | Associated with: Richard Brothers | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1795 date QS:P571,+1795-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.10377 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) The print reflects passions raised by debates on Stanhope's Motion against interference in the internal affairs of France (6 Jan. 1795), on Grey's Motion for peace with France (26 Jan.), and on Bedford's similar Motion (27 Jan.), as well as Motions by Fox and Guilford for a Committee on the State of the Nation (24 and 30 Mar.). 'Parl. Hist.' xxxi. ii3off., &c. See BMSats 8614, 8636-42. For earlier peace motions cf. BMSat 8437, &c. See also BMSat 8655. Cf. BMSat 8792. Jack Kunin has pointed out (email, February 2016) that the Hebrew inscription 'Chochmah' in the centre of the sun means wisdom. Grego, 'Gillray', pp. 183-4. Wright and Evans, No. 119. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-10377 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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