The Republican Attack
James Gillray (Chelsea 1757 - London 1815)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1795
Materials
Print with watercolour on paper in frame.
Measurements
430 mm (H), 430 mm (W)
Order this imageCollection
Clandon Park, Surrey
NT 1441541
Summary
[Saved] Print with watercolour framed with a manuscript description. The Republican Attack by James Gillray (Chelsea 1757 - London 1815) pubished by Hannah Humphrey of New Bond Street
Full description
Showing William Pitt driving a state coach with King George III and members of the government. King George III (1738–1820); George Onslow, 1st Earl of Onslow (1731-1814); The Rt. Hon. William Pitt the younger MP (1759-1806) ; Richard Pepper Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley (1744-1804); The Rt. Hon. Charles James Fox MP (1749-1806); Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, KG (1735-1811; William Wyndam Grenville, 1st Baron Greville (1759-1834); William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Lansdowne KG, MP, PC, FSA (1737-1805); Sir James Maitland, Viscount Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale (1759-1839) ; Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811); Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn (1733-1805) ; Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816); Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, FRS (1753-1816)
Provenance
Accepted by the Treasury in lieu of Estate Duty on the death of the 5th and the 6th Earl in 1984
Marks and inscriptions
Mounted as part of frame: The Republican Attack. Pitt is driving the State Coach in which are the King, Lord Onslow, Lord Westmoreland. Pepper, Arden, Dundas, Grenville & Loughborough are footmen hanging on. Lord Landsdowne has fired through the window, Fox with a club in his hand is wrenching open the door, & Sheridan, also with a club, is following. Lords Lauderdale & Stanhope with the Duke of Grafton are holding the wheel. Nov. 1. 1795 The mob crying for cheap bread & peace, had attacked the King when proceeding to open Parliament 29. October. 1795
Makers and roles
James Gillray (Chelsea 1757 - London 1815), artist Hannah Humphrey (1740 - 1818) , publisher Hannah Humphrey (1740 - 1818) , engraver (printmaker)