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Anticipation, or, the contrast to the Royal hunt

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Year:
1782
Contributor:
Britons (creator)
Wells, William, active 1777-1784 (publisher)
Genre:
caricatures
Subject:
Great Britain > creator > Caricatures and cartoons
Indians of North America
Local ID:
GB-H1782mf-3
Extent:
1 caricature; 23.0 x 34.0 cm.

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Abstract:
Engraved caricature by and after Britons (pseudonym) (attributed to Viscount Townshend), published May 16th, 1782; numerous caricatured personages in different activities: having eyes examined, washing clothes, demolishing temple, running about on shoreline etc., naval battle in distance. It represents the restoration of England under the new ministry; the pillars that supported the Temple of Fame are being righted and put back in place; a soldier with sword in hand protects a Native, representing America, from a Dutchman who kneels in supplication, as a Frenchman and a Spaniard flee his menacing posture. Lord North is caricatured as a washerwoman, Lord Sandwich as a ballad-singer, and Lord Rockingham as an oculist restoring sight (and reason) to George III who will renounce the hunt and return to the affairs of state. - Library of Congress
Notes:
Small oblong folio, matted; margins severely trimmed; clean.

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Collection is open for research.

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Britons, "Anticipation, or, the contrast to the Royal hunt" (1782). Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:234197/

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