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The Generae of patriotism, or, The Bloomsbury farmer, planting Bedfordshire wheat / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815

The Generae of patriotism, or, The Bloomsbury farmer, planting Bedfordshire wheat / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.

[London] : Pubd. Feby. 3rd, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1796]
etching and aquatint, hand colored
image: 236 x 346 mm; plate mark: 250 x 353 mm; sheet: 269 x 363 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.599
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows the Duke of Bedford as farmer scattering guineas from a pouch slung to his shoulder; on his back is a large sack inscribed '£'. As he sows the tips of bonnets-rouges and daggers sprout up; behind him (left) they progressively emerge more completely, and appear as little Jacobins, a raised dagger in each hand, crowding in close ranks towards the horizon, where they are smitten by thunderbolts which dart from clouds in the upper left corner of the design. Fox's smiling face is the centre of a sun which issues from clouds and shines on Bedford. A bull (John Bull) is harnessed to a plough which is guided by Sheridan wearing a bonnet-rouge. Lauderdale (bare-headed) raises a whip to flog the weary bull.

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