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Satire on the fear of French invasion, 1794-1805. (British political cartoon); Set in the House of Commons, this print imagines the government MPs taken prisoner and the Speaker of the House shackled by French officers, who are assisted by members of the Whig opposition, in the guise of French soldiers, and by the Whig leaders Fox and Sheridan, portrayed as a blacksmith and a cobbler.</div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:James_Gillray" class="extiw" title="w:en:James Gillray"><span title="British caricaturist and printmaker (1756-1815)">James Gillray</span></a>
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1 March 1798<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1798-03-01T00:00:00Z/11</div>
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