Poetry of the anti-Jacobin: comprising the celebrated political & satirical poems, parodies and jeux-d'esprit of the Right Hon. George Canning, the Earl of Carlisle, Marquis Wellesley, the Right Hon. J. H. Frere, W. Gifford, esq., the Rt. Hon. W. Pitt, G. Ellis, esq., and others / With explanatory notes by Charles Edmonds.
Appeared in the Anti-Jacobin; or Weekly examiner, Nov. 20, 1797-July 9, 1798. The plates are small reproductions, re-etched & copied from caricatures of Gillray pub. from 1793 to 1798.
Original document: Book.
Summary
This issue ofℓPoetry of the Anti-Jacobin includes six etchings by James Gillray. The newsletter, founded by George Canning, proclaimed to be partial to England and to refute the ideas of the Jacobins and English radicals. Canning paid Gillray for a number of plates depicting the themes of theℓAnti-Jacobin to help with publicity for the newsletter.