Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
Don Dismallo (Edmund Burke)
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Don Dismallo (Edmund Burke: Opposed French Revolution) Return
Edmund Burke, shirtless and in a jester's cap being lashed as he runs a gauntlet, from the left:
1 Helen Maria Williams;
2 Richard Price;
3 Anna Laetitia Barbauld;
4 Burke;
5 Richard Brinsley Sheridan;
6 A personification of Justice (with sword and scales);
7 A personification of Liberty (with liberty cap, a symbol of the French Revolution );
8 J.F.X. Whyte (a prisoner of the Bastille, with a flag of scenes from the French Revolution);
9 John Horne Tooke;
10 Catherine Macaulay Graham.
"[Oliver] Cromwell, madam, was a saint, when compared to this Literary Lucifer,"
Tooke says of Burke, summing up the cartoon's attack on Burke for denouncing
the French Revolution.
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