File:Light expelling darkness james gillray.jpg

Summary

Artist James Gillray (1756–1815) Link back to Creator infobox template wikidata:Q520806 s:en:Author:James Gillray Title English: Light Expelling Darkness Date 30 April 1795 Medium etching Notes English: Published by Hannah Humphrey: 30 April 1795 "Etching with soft ground etching, engraving, and roulette," hand-coloured. Image ID: ps_prn_cd28_412. Selected text:

   Within yellow disc at top left, Hebrew word חכמה ("wisdom") surrounded by: COMMONS . KING . LORDS
   Pitt stands on yellow shield with serpent and text: Exit Python Republicanus
   Scroll under lion's rear legs: Jacobin Prophecies for breeding Sedition in England
   Scroll under lion's chest: A scheme for raising the Catholicks in Ireland
   At bottom: LIGHT expelling DARKNESS._ Evaporation of Stygian Exhalations,_or_The SUN of the CONSTITUTION, rising superior to the Clouds of OPPOSITION.

Selected items:

   At left, Sun "of the Constitution", carried by
   Pitt wearing laurel wreath as Roman charioteer or possibly Apollo, drawn by
   British Lion wearing a cloth depicting Britannia, and
   The White Horse of Hanover

Source of notes and some text: [1], The New York Public Library and [2] Source/Photographer Transferred from en.wikipedia 2005-12-12 (original upload date) Original uploader was Jpetts

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