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The table's turn'd / Js. Gy. d. & f.

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James Gillray
1756-1815

The table's turn'd / Js. Gy. d. & f.

[London] : Pubd. March 4th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1797]
etching, hand colored
image: 240 x 353 mm; plate mark: 251 x 357 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.420
Notes
Cartoon in two panels with separate caption titles flanking central title; the one on the left reading: Billy in the Devils claws; on the right: Billy sending the Devil packing.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Design at left shows Fox as the Devil grasping Pitt round the waist, pointing with his left arm to a serried rank of French soldiers, landed from the boats of French men-of-war and marching up the steep coast. He says, turning a glaring eye-ball on Pitt: "Ha! Traitor! - there's the French landed in Wales! what d'ye think of that, Traitor?" Design at right shows Pitt kneeling on one knee and holding up a paper: 'Gazette Defeat of the Spanish Fleet; by Sir John Jarvis.' He looks up at Fox, saying: "Ha! Mr Devil! - we've Beat the Spanish Fleet what d'ye think of that Mr Devil?" Fox springs upwards with a terrified expression, his hands held up as if asking for mercy, his cap falls off and his tail is between his legs. On the right is the sea, with a naval battle in progress.

Associated names
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Ray, Gordon N. (Gordon Norton), 1915-1986, former owner.
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