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Abstract:: Etched caricature plate (after Gillray), published May 10th, 1782; politicians, military officers and others dismembering statue of Britannia and running off with various parts. Print includes members of the new ministry, among them, Fox, Wilkes, Dunning, Richmond, Burke, and Keppel; others preventing them from doing further damage includeThurow and Mansfield who pull them away from the statue with a rope. A Native American, representing America, a Frenchman, a Spaniard, and a Dutchman run off with pieces of Britannia.
Notes:: Oblong medium folio, matted; plate mark, margins intact; yellowed.; N.Y., Argosy, 1955.

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Gillray, James, "Britania's assassination, or--the Republicans amusement" (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:234312/

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