A keen-sighted politician warming his imagination, James Gillray

Grenville stands on a hearth-rug, his back to a blazing fire (right), holding up to his face an open book at which he looks sideways and near-sightedly. He raises his coat-tails to warm his bulky posteriors, his left hand in his breeches pocket. On the chimney-piece lie two books: 'Court Cookery' and 'Locke on Human Understanding.' Hanging above it is a 'Map of British Victories on the Continent' on which confused scrawls are depicted. On the back wall (left) is a bracket supporting a bowl of gold-fish, above which is a picture of three Ministers seated as if in Parliament, in back view with their coats drawn aside to show their bulky posteriors. The wall of the Treasury forms a background (BM). / This is a satirical picture of Lord Grenville, who at a later period joined in the celebrated Broad Bottom Ministry. The position with regard to the fire appears to have been a favourite one with his Lordship (Wright/Evans).

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