'New Morality, or the promised Installment of the High Priest of the Theophilanthropes...', 1798. Creator: James Gillray. # 3056721

'New Morality, or the promised Installment of the High Priest of the Theophilanthropes...', 1798. Creator: James Gillray.

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'New Morality, or the promised Installment of the High Priest of the Theophilanthropes, with the homage of Leviathan and his suite', 1798. The Leviathan has the face of the Duke of Bedford; Charles James Fox and others ride on his back, waving revolutionary caps. A 'Cornucopia of Ignorance' spews a spurious "Wrongs of Woman" and other pamphlets. 'Theophilanthropes' derived from the Theophilanthropic societies of Paris which aimed to transcend party politics, and here attracts a mixed bag of radicals. Others represented are: Robert Southey, Coleridge, Charles Lloyd, Charles Lamb, Erasmus Darwin, Joseph Priestley and Gilbert Wakefield. From the first issue of the "Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine".

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James Gillray, attributed to: {British, English}: Artist, caricaturist, draftsman, engraver, printmaker

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Charles Lloyd: :
Charles Lamb: British: Author, essayist, humourist
Joseph Priestley: British, American: Clergyman, political theorist, physical scientist, mathematician, chemist, theologian, scientist
Gilbert Wakefield: British: Author, scholar
Erasmus Darwin: British; English: Physician, author, poet
Charles James Fox: British: Statesman, politician
Duke of Bedford: British: BL
Robert Southey: British: Author, poet, historian
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: British: Poet, author
William Pitt the Younger: British: Prime Minister, politician