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| Keywords: Comforts-of-a-Bed-of-Roses-Gillray.jpeg Comfort's of a Bed of Roses SUMMARY Charles Fox in bed with his wife having a nightmare To the right Napoleon jumps to the bed from a cannon with the words Pour subjugeur le Monde inscribed on the muzzle; behind him are seen pikes and a banner with the words Horrors of Invasion William Pitt as a shade floats near the bed admonishing Fox Awake arise or be for ever fallen An eagle with the collar labeled Prussia looms over Fox's head From under the bed grow thorny rose branches and Death crawls out from under the covers holding an hourglass whose sand has nearly run out and entwined with a scroll inscribed Intemperance Dropsy Dissolution A bulldog with its collar inscribed John Bull lunges at Napoleon On the floor to the right side of the bed are tokens of Fox's problems India Roses Emancipation Roses French Roses and Volunteer Roses At the bottom of the bed is A List of the Broad-Bottom Administration Citizen Volpone Lord Bogy Lord Grenville nicknamed Bogy Grenville Bett Armstead Mrs Fox Doctor Clysterpipe Lord Sidmouth Miss Petty Lord Henry Petty MEDIUM 1 print etching hand-colored CREATED/PUBLISHED London H Humphrey 1806 April 21st Library of Congress Prints Photographs Division LC-USZC4-8797 color film copy transparency http //memory loc gov/master/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g08000/3g08700/3g08797u tif uncompressed archival TIFF version 49 MB rotated cropped and converted to JPEG quality level 88 with the GIMP 2 4 5 1806-04-21 creator James Gillray No known restriction on publication LOC-image cph 3g08797 PD-old-100 James Gillray 1806 cartoons Caricatures of the United Kingdom Caricatures of Napoleon I of France Couples in bed in art People with roses in art John Bull Bulldogs in art | ||||
