The Generae of patriotism, or, The Bloomsbury farmer, planting Bedfordshire wheat / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815
The Generae of patriotism, or, The Bloomsbury farmer, planting Bedfordshire wheat / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.
[London] : Pubd Feby 3rd, 1796, by H Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1796]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.599
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[London] : Pubd. Feby. 3rd, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1796]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Print shows the Duke of Bedford as farmer scattering guineas from a pouch slung to his shoulder; on his back is a large sack inscribed '£'. As he sows the tips of bonnets-rouges and daggers sprout up; behind him (left) they progressively emerge more completely, and appear as little Jacobins, a raised dagger in each hand, crowding in close ranks towards the horizon, where they are smitten by thunderbolts which dart from clouds in the upper left corner of the design. Fox's smiling face is the centre of a sun which issues from clouds and shines on Bedford. A bull (John Bull) is harnessed to a plough which is guided by Sheridan wearing a bonnet-rouge. Lauderdale (bare-headed) raises a whip to flog the weary bull.

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