The contrast [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- The contrast [graphic].
- Creator
- Stamp Act Congress (1765 : New York, N.Y.)
- Published / Created
- [1775?]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
A landscape divided by a stream. On the left, a desolate wasteland with a man cutting down the remaining apple tree while several other men attack a cow with knives or drink its blood. The cow bears on its rump a large stamp, alluding to the Stamp Act of 1765. To the right a cow garlanded by flowers and standing on a yoke is milked by a woman while the milk is drunk from bowls by women and children. Other children dance in the background and a boy picks apples in a tree. Contrasts England's harsh rule of her American colonies with benign and more profitable policies, possibly those of Holland
- Description
-
Title from item.
Sheet cropped into plate mark with some loss of text.
Date from British Museum catalogue.
Text in plate below image: "Let us not cut down the tree to get at the fruit. Let us stroke and not stab the cow, for her milk and not her blood can give us real nourishment and strength."
Mounted on paper 30 x 48 cm. - Provenance
- Alfred Bowditch collection.
- Extent
- 1 print : image and text 25 x 37 cm, on sheet 25 x 37 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 775.00.00.14+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Etchings England 1775
Political cartoons England 1775 - Material
- etching ;
- Subject (Geographic)
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Great Britain
America. - Subject (Topic)
-
Colonies
Children
Eating & drinking
Dancers
Milking
Cows
Apple trees - Subjects
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Great Britain > Colonies > America
Children
Eating & drinking
Dancers
Milking
Cows
Apple trees
England > 1775
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 6350012
- Object ID (OID)
- 10716332