Five groups, one in each corner, with a central group which represents John Bull, standing full face, between Sheridan (left) and Fox (right), who are forcibly feeding him with the bread of liberty. Both are ragged and bare-legged sansculottes, wearing bonnets-rouges. Each forces a small loaf inscribed 'Liberty', on the point of a dagger, into John's gaping mouth, dipping a hand into his coat-pocket. In the background, standing on a barren plain, are a gibbet (left) and Temple Bar (right).
<p><br>The other groups represent French sansculottes despoiling 'Holland', 'Savoy', 'Germany' &amp; 'Prussia', and 'Italy'. In the upper left corner a stout Dutchman straddling across the 'River Sheldt' is forced backwards by a Frenchman (left) who forces a loaf inscribed 'Liberty' into his mouth at the point of his bayonet, while another diverts a stream of coins from his pocket into his own cap. A third removes the Dutchman's hat with its tobacco pipe, and places on his head a bonnet-rouge.
<br>In the upper right corner a Frenchman thrusts the loaf of 'Liberty', spiked on a spit, at the mouth of a stout Savoyard while another holds him by the ears, and a third (right) drags at the hurdy-gurdy which is slung round his neck.
<br>Below (left) an Austrian officer holding a standard on which is the Habsburg eagle, and a Prussian officer (probably Brunswick) wearing the cap of the Death's-head Hussars, and holding a broken sword (indicating retreat after Valmy, see BMSat 8125, &amp;c.) flee in terror before French tatterdemalions with loaves of 'Liberty' on their spears, and a banner inscribed 'Vive la Liberia'.
<br>In the lower right corner a sansculotte fires a loaf of 'Liberty' from his blunderbuss into the mouth of the terrified Pope, who leans back in his papal chair. A second Frenchman, clutching the keys of St. Peter, removes his triple crown. The pope's bare foot rests on a stool, and is trampled on by the furious man with the blunderbuss. The emblematical dove (irradiated) flies off.  12 January 1793
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<br>Hand-coloured etching
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<p>Print made by: James Gillray
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<dl><dd>Published by: Hannah Humphrey</dd></dl></div>
1793<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1793-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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