An alchemist using a crown-shaped bellows to blow the flames of a furnace and heat a glass vessel in which the House of Commons is distilled; satirizing the dissolution of parliament by Pitt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.
Lettering: The dissolution, or the alchymist producing an Ætherial representation. Js. Gy. des et fect.
- James Gillray
- James Gillray
- FOX, CHARLES JAMES, 1749-1806
- SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY, 17
- GREAT BRITAIN - POLITICS AND G
- SATIRES
- ETCHINGS
- PITT, WILLIAM, THE YOUNGER, 17
- Satires (Visual works)
- James Gillray
- James Gillray
- FOX, CHARLES JAMES, 1749-1806
- SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY, 17
- GREAT BRITAIN - POLITICS AND G
- SATIRES
- ETCHINGS
- PITT, WILLIAM, THE YOUNGER, 17
- Satires (Visual works)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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- Credit: Wellcome Collection
- 1796
- V0011302
- V0011302
- b1160356
- ICV No 11565
- kuwr5gar
- 1796
- United Kingdom
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- 2019-06-09T12:13:25.052Z