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| Keywords: Britannia-between-Death-and-the-Doctors-Gillray.jpeg Britannia between Death and the Doctor's Js Gillray inv fect SUMMARY A faint Britannia seated on bed with three doctors William Pitt kicking Henry Addington and stepping on Charles James Fox The figure of death with Napoleon's head strides from behind bed curtains MEDIUM 1 print etching hand-colored CREATED/PUBLISHED London pubd by H Humphrey 1804 May 20th According to Wright Evans Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray 1851 OCLC 59510372 p 243 On Pitt's return to office in 1804 Doctor Addington's course of treatment has nearly thrown his patient into the power of political death personified in her arch-enemy Napoleon and she is only relieved by the sudden return of her old physician Pitt is represented as kicking Addington out of the House and has overturned a phial in Addington's hand labelled 'Composing Draft ' Pitt holds a bottle of 'Constitutional Restorative' in his hand and 'The Art of Restoring Health' is hanging out of his pocket He is treading upon Fox's prostrate body By Fox's side are 'Whig Pills ' and in his uplifted hand is 'Republican Balsam ' Library of Congress Prints Photographs Division LC-USZC4-8794 color film copy transparency http //memory loc gov/master/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g08000/3g08700/3g08794u tif uncompressed archival TIFF version 49 MB level color pick white and black point rotated cropped and converted to JPEG quality level 88 with the GIMP 2 4 5 1804-05-20 creator James Gillray No known restriction on publication LOC-image cph 3g08794 1815 1804 cartoons James Gillray Caricatures of William Pitt the Younger Caricatures of Napoleon I of France Caricatures of physicians Caricatures of death Charles James Fox Britannia Falling in art Pockets in art Personifications of death 1800s interiors in art | ||||
