Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Addington bleeding the exhausted John Bull who is supported on a commode by Hawkesbury - Fox and Sheridan offer warm water while Addington's son and Napoleon catch the blood in their hats; satirizing Britain's strength being sapped by imperial France and nepotic statesmen. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1803.
Addington bleeding the exhausted John Bull who is supported on a commode by Hawkesbury - Fox and Sheridan offer warm water while Addington's son and Napoleon catch the blood in their hats; satirizing Britain's strength being sapped by imperial France and nepotic statesmen. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1803.
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Addington bleeding the exhausted John Bull who is supported on a commode by Hawkesbury - Fox and Sheridan offer warm water while Addington's son and Napoleon catch the blood in their hats; satirizing Britain's strength being sapped by imperial France and nepotic statesmen. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1803.

http://data.europeana.eu/agent/148259 · 1803

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Lettering: Doctor Sangrado curing John Bull of repletion ... Js. Gillray invt. & fect.

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