The wedding of Lady Lucy Stanhope to Thomas Taylor, a surgeon-apothecary: the bride is given away by her father Earl …

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The wedding of Lady Lucy Stanhope to Thomas Taylor, a surgeon-apothecary: the bride is given away by her father Earl Stanhope, while Fox and Sheridan officiate. Coloured etching by J Gillray, 1796. Stanhope is shown as a sans-culotte. Taylor is represented by a mortar and pestle wearing the bonnet-rouge. Charles James Fox is reading from the "Rights of Man" and Sheridan from "Thelwal's Lectures"; above them is a painting entitled "Shrine of Equality" which depicts figures also wearing bonnets-rouges guillotining crowned figures. The idea of an earl's daughter marrying a man of such a lowly profession as surgeon-apothecary was thought by some to be ridiculous. Created 4 March 1796. Politicians. Surgeons. Pharmacists. Mortars. Pestles. Weddings. Costume – France (- 18th century). Painting. Great Britain. Thomas Taylor (active 1796). Lucy Rachel Stanhope (1780–1814). Charles Stanhope Stanhope, Earl (1753–1816). Charles James Fox (1749–1806). Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816). Thomas Paine, 1737–1809. Rights of man. John Thelwall (1764–1834). Contributors: James Gillray (1756–1815). Work ID: qs7wrv4b.

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