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De wanhoopige Britten, en de vernoedge Americanen : op de tyding van diffensive alliantie, onbepaalt convoy, en gewapende neutraliteit
Title
De wanhoopige Britten, en de vernoedge Americanen : op de tyding van diffensive alliantie, onbepaalt convoy, en gewapende neutraliteit.
Publication
[Netherlands] : [publisher not identified], [1780]
Physical Description
1 print : engraving ; 16.2 x 11 cm, plate mark 16.3 x 12 cm
Local Notes
BEIN BrSides 2019 490: On sheet 27.0 x 44.6 cm. Forms part of the Benjamin Franklin Collection.
Notes
Title from caption above image.
Title translated: The despairing Briton, and the contented American, at the news of defensive alliance, unlimited convoy, and armed neutrality.
Summary
Central engraving with letterpress text on the left and right columns. The image in the center features George III on a pile of papers with his head on his hands; Lord North is behind the King with hands clasped. In the middle are four Dutchman one showing the others Dutch cloth. In front of them is a Dutchman seated on the ground speaking to a Spaniard. To the left is a Frenchman holding up a canvas with various animals on its surface. In the background is a castle on a hill with a cannon being fired from a rooftop; in the distance is a beach with several Native Americans, one with a spear.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 21, 2021
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5, no. 5724
Subjects
Genre/Form
Engravings.
Satires (Visual works)
Also listed under
Benjamin Franklin Collection (Yale University. Library)
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