The fallen angel! [graphic].

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Title: The fallen angel! [graphic].
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 1793]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly ...
Abstract: "Fox sits on the ground, full-face, his fingers together, scowling disconsolately. He holds the staff of liberty, broken, with a tattered cap of 'Liberty' inscribed 'Sedition \ Equality \ Rebell[ion]' about to fall from it. Flames rise on both sides inscribed: (left) 'A People rouz'd', and (right) 'Popular Resentment'. Beneath the title is etched: 'Ubi lapsus Quid feci? Such place eternal justice has prepar'd For those rebellious------ Vide Milton's Paradise Lost'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... who has again open'd his carricature exhibition rooms to which he has added several hundred old & new subjects.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted to 37 x 30 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 35 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1793
Etchings England London 1793
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic): Liberty cap
Subjects: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Liberty cap
England > 1793
England > London > 1793

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