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The introduction of the Pope to the convocation at Oxford, by the Cardinal broad-bottom / Js. Gillray fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815

The introduction of the Pope to the convocation at Oxford, by the Cardinal broad-bottom / Js. Gillray fect.

[London] : Publishd by H. Humphrey. 27 St James Street London Decr 1st 1809, [1809]
etching, hand colored
image: 251 x 362 mm; plate mark: 268 x 372 mm; sheet: 297 x 391 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.255
Notes
At head of image: Golgotha, i.e. the place of skulls.
Satire on the approaching election for the Chancellorship of Oxford University.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows Grenville (the future chancellor) dressed as a cardinal, heading a small procession towards the Devil, who wears a robe on which is a large cross, and holds amask with which he is hiding his face. Grenville holds out a paper: Catholic Petition for the vacant Chancellorship with a Plan for Erecting a New Popish Sanhedrim on the ruins of old Alma-Mater. The Devil says: Well done my Children! This is all the Convocation I would have; in his left hand is a pitchfork. The Marquis of Buckingham, dressed as a Jesuit, stands behind him, one hand on his shoulder, the other holding his barbed tail. Beside him is Canning (unrecognizable) wearing a Jesuit's biretta. Beside the Devil is a greyhound with the head of Grey, its collar inscribed Popish Gray Hound. Immediately behind Grenville walks the Pope, wearing his tiara, and holding his cross; he holds up Grenville's robe on which is a large cross. Napoleon crouches behind the Pope, holding on to his robes and hiding under his mantle. Behind walk Temple, dressed as a monk, and his brother, Lord George Grenville, similarly dressed. The former carries the Host, the latter a lighted candle. In the background rows of bishops and clergymen face the procession. Bishops in the front row, humbly sweeping the ground with their mitres, bow low, each clasping a Mass Book, while those behind cheer with raised mortar-board, hand, or Mass Book. On five of the books are the names of bishoprics: York [Vernon], St Asaph [Cleaver], London [Randolph], Oxford [Moss], Norwich [Bathurst].

Associated names
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints