Cartoon, End of the Irish Farce of Catholic Emancipation
Cartoon, End of the Irish Farce of Catholic Emancipation, by James Gillray. Showing a scene outside Heaven, with St Peter at the gate of Popish Supremacy and a crowd of Catholic priests and clergy, some of them politicians in costume such as Fox, Buckingham and Grenville, blown back by shadowy British politicians in profile (left). With a parodic verse in the style of Milton below
Picture No
10956148
Media ID
48223698
Size
5333px x 4459px
(5.0MB)
Credit
© The Sharp Illustration Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Cartoon in The Works of James Gillray, the Caricaturist; with the History of His Life and Times, edited by Thomas Wright, 1873
Date
1806
