Consequences of a successful French invasion. Me teach de English republicans to work
Consequences of a successful French invasion. Me teach de English republicans to work
Item Information
Title:
Consequences of a successful French invasion. Me teach de English republicans to work
Title (alt.):
No. I. Plate 4. Me teach de English republicans to work
Description:
The hoe-driver stands on the left of the line of hoers (right), who advance diagonally. The husbandman is a fat John Bull, his wife a comely woman. Beyond the 'old man' is a fifth man. On the extreme right, Gillray has added in the foreground a ragged hoer suspiciously like Fox. The four men yoked to the plough do not resemble seamen. The print otherwise follows the description. All the Englishmen wear large wooden shoes, emblems of servitude (BM).
Title from item.
Alternative title from Wright/Evans.
BM Satires 9182; Wright/Evans 181
Additional information accompanying item: From the 1824 Gillray collection of copies etched and published with text, serially in nine parts, by John Miller and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh.
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Louis Black; December 1953
Notes (date):
Date from Wright/Evans.
Reproduction. Date indicated is Gillray's original publication date.
Notes (citation):
Stephens, Frederic George, George, Mary Dorothy. "Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum." British Museum Press, 1870, London.
Wright, Thomas, R. H. Evans. "Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures of James Gillray." Benjamin Blom, 1968, New York.
