The Tree of Liberty must be planted immediately! : this is the something which must be done and that quickly too! to save the country from destruction. Vide sentments [sic] of Whig Club Feby. 14th 1797 / Js. Gy. inv. & fet.

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James Gillray
1756-1815
The Tree of Liberty must be planted immediately! : this is the something which must be done and that quickly too! to save the country from destruction. Vide sentments [sic] of Whig Club Feby. 14th 1797 / Js. Gy. inv. & fet.
[London] : Pubd Feby 16th, 1797, by H Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1797]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.419
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[London] : Pubd. Feby 16th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1797]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Print shows a pike topped by the bleeding head of Fox, the eyes covered by a cap inscribed 'Libertas'. Round the base of the pike and on a grassy mound are heaped the severed heads of the Foxites: Thelwall, Derby, Lauderdale, Stanhope, M. A. Taylor, Hanger, Erskine, Sheridan, Horne Tooke, and others.

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Gillray, James
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