A Phantasmagoria; - Scene - Conjuring-Up an Armed Skeleton, 1803 by James Gillray
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- A Phantasmagoria; - Scene - Conjuring-Up an Armed Skeleton, 1803
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- James Gillray
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- © Bridgeman Art Library / © Courtesy of the Warden and Scholars of New College, Oxford
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Henry Addington (1757-1844), Lord Hawkesbury (1770-1828), and Charles James Fox (1749-1806) are depicted as the three witches from 'Macbeth'; consequences of peace won through concession to the French; feeding the fire with surrendered territory; William Wilberforce (1759-1833) crouching in foreground and singing 'Hymn of Peace'; brandishing mistletoe and a serpent;
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