'A Peace Offering to the Genius of Liberty and Equality', 1794. Artist: Isaac Cruikshank


'A Peace Offering to the Genius of Liberty and Equality', 1794. Whigs offering gifts to France. A procession consisting of Charles Stanhope, bearing constitutional symbols, followed by Richard Sheridan, Charles Fox, Samuel Whitbread and the Duke of Bedford, moving towards a grotesque figure (the Republic) before whom Justice lies prostrate.


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