Democratic leveling, alliance a la Françoise, or, The union of the coronet & clyster-pipe

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James Gillray
1756-1815
Democratic leveling, alliance a la Françoise, or, The union of the coronet & clyster-pipe
[London] : Pubd March 4th, 1796, by H Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1796]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.147
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[London] : Pubd. March 4th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1796]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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By James Gillray.

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Print shows Fox and Sheridan officiating at the wedding of Lady Lucy Stanhope and an apothecary who is made up of medical implements. Earl Stanhope is shown giving his daughter away at the altar. The bridegroom, Thomas Taylor, is a sansculotte with posteriors formed of a syringe, his body is a mortar, from which issues a pestle supporting a bonnet rouge. His arm is made of two medicine-phials. On the wall behind the altar hangs a picture with caption "Shrine of equality", showing figures with coronets lining up to be guillotined.

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