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Summary
Poor old England endeavouring to reclaim her wicked American children
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| Title |
Poor old England endeavouring to reclaim her wicked American children |
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| Description |
English: England, as an elderly, emaciated man, with a wooden leg and crutch, stands on one side of water inscribed "The Atlantic Ocean". He wears a wide-brimmed hat; at his feet is Britannia's shield. In his left hand is a scourge with which he threatens five Americans on the other side. Four of them have hooks through their noses attached to cords which England is pulling. Nevertheless, one turns his back and looks round jeering; another is firing a miniature cannon held in both hands. The fifth shouts and points, waving his hat. Beneath the title is etched "And therefore is England maimed & forc'd to go with a Staff, shakespeare". 1 April 1777
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| Date | 1777 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Prints and Drawings |
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| Accession number |
1868,0808.4553 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) One of the few political satires in Darly's series, see BMSat 5369, 5370, &c. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4553 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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