The tea-tax-tempest, or, The Anglo-American revolution [graphic].

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Title: The tea-tax-tempest, or, The Anglo-American revolution [graphic].
Alternative Title: Anglo-American revolution
Creator: Guttenberg, Carl Gottlieb, 1743-1790, printmaker
Contributor: Dixon, John, 1740-1811, artist.
Published / Created: [1778]
Publication Place: Paris
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue.
Proof with title. Cf. No. 5490 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Place of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
Adaptation, in reverse, of The oracle by John Dixon.
Temporary local subject terms: Acts: Stamp Act -- America: tea -- Taxation: tea -- Emblems: France as a cock --Personifications: Time -- Europe -- Asia -- Africa -- America -- Switzerland -- Holland -- Lighting: magic lantern -- Flags: American flag with serpent -- French prints.
"No. 126" added in an unknown hand at top center of sheet.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 40.9 x 49 cm, on sheet 48 x 63 cm
Edition: [Proof with title].
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) France 1778
Engravings France Paris 1778
Etchings France Paris 1778
Annotations (Provenance)
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: France > 1778
France > Paris > 1778

Access: Public
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