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Gillray (James). Sans-Culottes Feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty, published H. Humphrey, Jany. 12th. 1793, hand coloured etching, slight overall toning, 305 x 365 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with A Burgess of Warwick Lane, published H. Humphrey, July 3rd. 1795, etching with contemporary hand colouring, 245 x 155 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (Qty: 2) The first described item shows five vignettes, with a central group of John Bull, caught between Sheridan and Fox, who are forcibly feeding him with the bread of liberty. Both of the politicians are depicted as ragged and bare-legged sans-culottes, wearing bonnets-rouges. Each forces a small loaf inscribed 'Liberty', on the point of a dagger, into John's gaping mouth and at the same time picking his pockets. In the background, standing on a barren plain, are a gibbet with a hangman's noose and the ruins of Temple Bar. The other groups show French sans-culottes despoiling 'Holland', 'Savoy', 'Germany' & 'Prussia', and 'Italy'.