The table's turn'd / Js. Gy. d. & f.

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James Gillray
1756-1815
The table's turn'd / Js. Gy. d. & f.
[London] : Pubd March 4th, 1797, by H Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1797]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.420
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[London] : Pubd. March 4th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1797]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Cartoon in two panels with separate caption titles flanking central title; the one on the left reading: Billy in the Devils claws; on the right: Billy sending the Devil packing.

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Design at left shows Fox as the Devil grasping Pitt round the waist, pointing with his left arm to a serried rank of French soldiers, landed from the boats of French men-of-war and marching up the steep coast. He says, turning a glaring eye-ball on Pitt: "Ha! Traitor! - there's the French landed in Wales! what d'ye think of that, Traitor?" Design at right shows Pitt kneeling on one knee and holding up a paper: 'Gazette Defeat of the Spanish Fleet; by Sir John Jarvis.' He looks up at Fox, saying: "Ha! Mr Devil! - we've Beat the Spanish Fleet what d'ye think of that Mr Devil?" Fox springs upwards with a terrified expression, his hands held up as if asking for mercy, his cap falls off and his tail is between his legs. On the right is the sea, with a naval battle in progress.

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