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The genius of France triumphant, -or- Britannia petitioning for peace. -Vide, The Proposals of Opposition   (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
The genius of France triumphant, -or- Britannia petitioning for peace. -Vide, The Proposals of Opposition
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English: Britannia (left) grovels before a monster (right) representing the French Republic. Behind her stand Fox, Sheridan, and Stanhope, as sansculottes, joyfully hailing the apparition. Britannia on her knees, and bending forward, holds out her arms in a gesture of abject submission, pointing to her shield and spear, the crown and sceptre, and 'Magna Charta' which lie on the ground before her. She is on the edge of a cliff. The monster is supported on dark clouds; he is a man seated with arms and legs akimbo, one jack-boot is planted on the sun, a face in its disk looking from the corners of the eyes at Britannia with a dismayed expression; the other is on a crescent enclosing the old moon. His seat is the point of a huge bomb-shaped cap of 'Li-ber-tas'. His head is a black cloud on which grotesquely fierce features are indicated. Above his head rises a guillotine emitting rays of light. His dress is that of a ragged sansculotte with a dagger thrust in his belt.


The British sansculottes are also bare-legged and wear belts in which a dagger is thrust; but they have nothing of the fierce arrogance of France. Fox, his stockings ungartered, and Sheridan, shambling forward with propitiatory gestures, remove their bonnets-rouges. Fox holds out two large keys labelled 'Keys of the Bank of England'; Sheridan proffers a document: 'We Promise the Surrender of the Navy of Great Brita[in] - of Corsica [see BMSat 8516] - of the East & West Indias [see BMSat 8599] - & to abolish the Worship of a God' [cf. BMSat 8350]. Stanhope, less deprecating, stands behind the others, waving his bonnet-rouge and a rolled document inscribed 'Destruction of Parliament'. Beneath the title: 'To the Patriotic Advocates for Peace, this Seemly sight is dedicated'. 2 February 1795


Hand-coloured etching and aquatint
Depicted people Associated with: Charles James Fox
Date 1795
date QS:P571,+1795-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 250 millimetres
Width: 350 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.718
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

A satire on the repeated motions of the Opposition for peace with France. See debates of 30 Dec. 1794, 6, 26, and 27 Jan. 1795. 'Parl. Hist.' xxxi. 1016 ff., 1130 ff., 1193 ff., 1248 ff. (and 'Cornwallis Corr.' ii. 279-80). Auckland writes (16 Jan.) of the debacle in Holland (see BMSat 8608, &c): 'Under any other circumstances the ministry would be changed; but Mr Fox's party is dreaded and disliked. . . .' 'Corr.' iii. 281. Cf. BMSats 8626, 8644. Grego, 'Gillray', p. 182. Wright and Evans, No. 113. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-718
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