L'enfant trouvé : a sample of Roman Charity!, or, the misfortune of not being born with marks of "the talents" / Js Gillray invt and fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815
L'enfant trouvé : a sample of Roman Charity!, or, the misfortune of not being born with marks of "the talents" / Js Gillray invt and fect.
[London] : Publish'd May 19th 1808, by H Humphrey 27 St James's Street, [1808]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.247
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[London] : Publish'd May 19th 1808, by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street, [1808]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Following caption title: "What! a Relation to the Broad-Bottom's? - O Sainte Marie! why there's not the least Appearance of it! - therefore, take it away to the Workhouse, directly! - ".

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Print shows the Grenville family around a table on which a footman places a basket containing an attractive baby. A blue ribbon with a seal or jewel hangs from the basket, which is labelled 'for the Marchioness Broad Bot[tom]', with a paper: 'Copy of Verses to the Marchioness of Broad...'. The Marchioness and the Marquis lean towards the basket. The former is dressed as an abbess, with a large cross on her robe and an enormous rosary hanging from her waist. Her husband wears military uniform, his left hand rests on an enormous cross worn in place of a sword. On the farther side of the table his two brothers, Thomas Grenville and Lord Grenville, wearing monkish robes with rosaries round their necks. On the left stand Buckingham's two sons, Lord George Grenville and Lord Temple. The room is an oratory, with an altar. An open book leans against the open sanctuary which supports a chalice and the Host. Its pages are headed 'Sante Marie', 'Sante Joseph', 'Sante Diable', 'Sante Napoleone'. Within the sanctuary is a demon hugging money-bags. Above the altar is a circular picture inscribed 'St Napolean'. On the wall is a picture entitled 'Broad-Bottom-Abbey'. Buckingham and his wife have risen from two ornate and throne-like chairs on which are a coronet and a cross; beneath them lies a long gold crosier.

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