Nightly visitors at St. Ann's Hill / Js. Gy. inv & ft.
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James Gillray
1756-1815
Nightly visitors at St. Ann's Hill / Js. Gy. inv & ft.
[London] : Pubd Sept 21, 1798, by H Humphrey, 27 St James's Street, [1798]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.141
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[London] : Pubd. Sept. 21, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, [1798]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Print shows Fox in bed confronted by the ghost of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, and the headless bodies of Quigley [i.e. Coigley], Sheares, Harvey, and Grogan. Lord Edward is saying: "Who first sedue'd my youthful Mind from Virtue? - Who plann'd my Treasons, & who caus'd my Death? - Remember poor Lord Edward, and despair!!!", while Fox replies: "Why do'st thou shake thy, Goary Locks at me? Dear, bravest, worthiest, noblest, best of Men! Thou can'st not say, I did it!" Above Fox's head fly two naked creatures with webbed wings and serpents springing from their heads and writhing round their bodies. They hold up between them a paper inscribed: Confessions of O'Conner Ol Bond.
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