Print shows Richard Brothers, dressed as a sansculotte and carrying on his back a 'Bundle of the Elect' from which protrude the heads and legs of Fox, Sheridan, Stanhope, and Lansdowne. In his left hand is an open book: 'Revelation', and a sword of flame, his right hand points up an ascending path to the 'Gate of Jerusalem'; this is a gallows from which hang three nooses; behind it are flames in which demons are flying. He tramples on a seven-headed monster (the Beast of 'Revelation'): on one head, that of the Pope, he puts his foot, another prostrate human head wears a crown and so does the head of a beast breathing fire. The other four heads are those of demons. Behind walk Jews, the most prominent a pedlar with an open box of trinkets. Beside them walks a fat, disreputable woman holding a bottle inscribed 'Everlasting Life' and a glass. From her pocket hangs a ballad: 'Isabell Wake a new Song to the tune of a Two penny Loaf'. In the foreground St. Paul's, the Monument, a spire and houses are being engulfed in a fiery pit and are breaking to pieces (according to Brothers' prophecy). On the horizon is the sea with the masts of wrecked ships projecting from the waves. Immediately above Brothers is an owl with an olive-branch in its beak, a halo poised whirlpool-like on a point above its head; it clutches a paper inscribed 'Peace'. On the right is the sun, its disk containing a staring face, wearing a bonnet-rouge, and surrounded by the points of a star which drip blood. On the left is a crescent moon in which is a fissure, its arc borders a shaded disk; round this grotesque demons dance in a ring, holding hands.
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The prophet of the Hebrews, the Prince of Peace conducting the Jews to the Promis'd Land / Js. Gy. des. et fec.
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James Gillray
1756-1815
The prophet of the Hebrews, the Prince of Peace conducting the Jews to the Promis'd Land / Js. Gy. des. et fec.
[London] : Pubd March 5th, 1795, by H Humphrey, N 37 New Bond Street, [1795]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.530
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[London] : Pubd. March 5th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street, [1795]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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