Malagrida driving post / Js Gy inv. & f.

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James Gillray
1756-1815
Malagrida driving post / Js Gy inv. & f.
etching, hand colored
image: 242 x 346 mm; plate mark: 247 x 348 mm; sheet: 255 x 357 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 3135
Published: 
[London] : Pub. March 16th by H. Humphrey, Bond Street, [1792]
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

Another edition of George No. 8069, lacking year of imprint.

Summary: 

Print shows a carriage driving at a gallop towards the gateway of St. James's Palace. Lord Lansdowne, in peer's robes, puts his head out of the window to call to the coachman, who is lashing the pair of horses: "Drive you dog! drive! - now, or never! - aha the Coast is clearing!------drive! drive! you dog!" The carriage is decorated with coronets, and on the door is the beehive crest of Lord Lansdowne and the motto 'Ut Ap[es] Geometriam'. Running behind the carriage are: Fox, saying, "Stop! stop! - & take me in, - Stop!"; Sheridan saying, "And me too! stop", and (very small) M. A. Taylor, saying, "And me". In the background a similar carriage is driving yet more rapidly out of the Palace gateway; the tiny figures are recognizable: Dundas, the coachman, has dropped the reins, the horses are running away; Pitt, terror-stricken, puts his arms through the windows. Both look up at a dove with an olive-branch which flies over their heads towards the gateway.

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