Pantagruel's victorious return to the court of Gargantua. After extirpating the soup-meagres of bouille land / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815
Pantagruel's victorious return to the court of Gargantua. After extirpating the soup-meagres of bouille land / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.
engraving
image: 31 x 35.8 cm; plate: 31.3 x 36.4 cm; sheet: 32.1 x 37.8 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2835
Published: 
[London] : H. Humphrey, 1794.
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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The Duke of York (left), in regimentals and wearing a cocked hat, stands in profile to the right, tipsily swaggering; he hands to George III two large keys: 'Keys of Paris'. The King, seated on the throne (right) in hunting-dress, leans eagerly forward. The Duke is followed by soldiers bearing (worthless) trophies of victory. Behind the Duke are French weapons, broken: a sword inscribed 'Vive la Lib . .', a cannon similarly inscribed, cannon-balls, a musket, and a pile of decapitated heads wearing bonnets-rouges, on which tramples the Duke's secretary.

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