Democratic Levelling, cartoon
TitleDemocratic Levelling, cartoon
ReferenceFRAMED/112
Date
4 Mar 1796
Production date 1796-03-04 - 1795-03-04
Scope and ContentFrom Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: vol 7
Full title: Democratic Levelling ;-Alliance a La Francoise;- Or-the Union of the Coronet & Clysterpipe.
"[Gillray.] Published March 4th 1796. by H. Humphrey New Bond Street, Engraving (coloured impression).
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 (l.), without breeches, and wearing a bonnet-rouge, stooping in profile to the r., 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. 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. He wears surplice and bands. Sheridan stands (r.) in profile to the l., reading from Thelwal’s Lectures, 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 (r.) waiting their turn. On the ground by the guillotine lie coronets which have just been chopped off.
Lady Lucy Stanhope married Mr. Taylor, a surgeon of Sevenoaks, on 26 Apr. 1796; 'Citizen' Stanhope treated the match as a misalliance."
Full title: Democratic Levelling ;-Alliance a La Francoise;- Or-the Union of the Coronet & Clysterpipe.
"[Gillray.] Published March 4th 1796. by H. Humphrey New Bond Street, Engraving (coloured impression).
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 (l.), without breeches, and wearing a bonnet-rouge, stooping in profile to the r., 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. 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. He wears surplice and bands. Sheridan stands (r.) in profile to the l., reading from Thelwal’s Lectures, 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 (r.) waiting their turn. On the ground by the guillotine lie coronets which have just been chopped off.
Lady Lucy Stanhope married Mr. Taylor, a surgeon of Sevenoaks, on 26 Apr. 1796; 'Citizen' Stanhope treated the match as a misalliance."
Extent1 framed item
Physical descriptionDimensions (H X W): 40cm X 29cm
Persons keywordGillray, James, Fox, Charles James, Sheridan, Richard, Stanhope, Lucy
SubjectCartoons
Conditions governing accessOpen
Levelfile
Normal location54W (First floor)