'Sans-culottes, feeding Europe with the bread of liberty'
50 of 168 portraits of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
'Sans-culottes, feeding Europe with the bread of liberty'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 12 January 1793
12 1/2 in. x 14 3/8 in. (317 mm x 365 mm) plate size; 12 3/8 in. x 14 3/4 in. (315 mm x 374 mm) paper size
Purchased, 1947
Reference Collection
NPG D12469
Sittersback to top
- Charles James Fox (1749-1806), Whig statesman. Sitter associated with 313 portraits. Identify
- Pope Pius VI (Giovanni Angelico Braschi) (1717-1799), Pope 1775-99. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), Dramatist and parliamentary orator. Sitter associated with 168 portraits. Identify
Artistsback to top
- James Gillray (1756-1815), Caricaturist. Artist or producer associated with 887 portraits, Sitter in 7 portraits.
- Hannah Humphrey (circa 1745-1818), Publisher and printseller. Artist or producer associated with 720 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
Events of 1793back to top
Current affairs
Whig MP Charles Grey enters a motion for parliamentary reform but is defeated in the House of Commons.Art and science
Radical philosopher William Godwin publishes Political Justice, an inflamatory document that promoted rational anarchism. This crystallised a wider feeling that a new era of world peace and progress was beginning.Sir William Beechey is appointed Portrait Painter to her Majesty, Queen Charlotte.
International
Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette are executed and the Reign of Terror begins.France declares war on Britain, Holland and then Spain. William Pitt addresses the House of Commons and Britain hesitantly joins the first coalition of anti-revolutionary European states to oppose the French threat.
Attack on Corsica in which Captain Horatio Nelson loses an eye.
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