Caricature’s golden age may have waned by the early the nineteenth century, but the Foxite Whigs, despite their unstable and turbulent political journey, held on to the dream of once more holding political office (See Stuart Semmell, Napoleon and the British (Yale, 2004)). Caricature still targeted their ambitions, sociability, and radicalism, now casting them not as mere French Republican supporters but as Napoleonic-era radicals, and spineless government ministers (For caricature’s decline see Donald, The Age of Caricature, Epilogue, pp. 184–198; Revolutionary symbols such as the bonnet rouge could also be read as a ‘symbol of freedom from tyranny’, thus the Foxites association with the bonnet rouge could also mark their opposition to Napoleon’s growing despotism. See Jennifer Harris, ‘The Red Cap of Liberty: A Study of Dress Worn by French Revolutionary Partisans 1789–94’, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 14, No. 3 (1981), pp. 283–312, p. 283). This shift began after Napoleon’s Coup d’état de Brumaire in November 1799, which saw him rise to First Consul of France.