Charon's boat, or, The ghosts of "all the talents" taking their last voyage : from the Pope's gallery at Rome / Js. Gillray, fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815
Charon's boat, or, The ghosts of "all the talents" taking their last voyage : from the Pope's gallery at Rome / Js. Gillray, fect.
[London] : Publish'd July 16th 1807, by H Humphrey 27 St James's Street , [1807]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.246
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[London] : Publish'd July 16th 1807, by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street , [1807]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Satire on the dismissal of the Grenville administration.

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Print shows a group of naked Whig politicians, including Lord Grenville, Sheridan, St. Vincent, Moira, Temple, Erskine, Howick, Petty, Whitbread, Windham, and George Pretyman, Bishop of Lincoln, crossing the river Styx in a boat named the Broad Bottom Packet. Sidmouth's head emerges from the water next to the boat. The boat's torn sail has inscription "Catholic Emancipation" and the center mast is crowned with the Prince of Wales feathers and motto "Ich Dien". On the far side the shades of Cromwell, Charles Fox and Robespierre wave to them. Overhead, on brooms, are Canning, Castlereagh, and Lord Hawkesbury, shown as the Three Fates; to the left is the three-headed dog Cerberus. Above the boat three birds soil the boat and politicians.

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