Glorious reception of the ambassador of peace on his entry into Paris / Js. Gy. d et fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815
Glorious reception of the ambassador of peace on his entry into Paris / Js. Gy. d et fect.
[London] : Pubd Octr 28th 1796, by H Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1796]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.153
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[London] : Pubd. Octr. 28th 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1796]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Print shows Lord Malmesbury in a chaise with the royal arms drawn by four wretched hacks and behind the coach stand three English footmen. The chaise-doors are open, a fish-wife has entered from each side; both embrace Malmesbury who puts out his hands in dismay. Beside him sits his secretary, a pen behind his ear. Another woman is getting into the chaise (left) and a fourth stands beside it with two fish are attached to her petticoat. A crowd waves bonnets-rouges in the background while in the foreground stand a small boy, an officer wearing a feathered cocked hat and tattered coat, a ragged man wearing jack-boots and a bag-wig, waving a bonnet-rouge, and a sansculotte.

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