The contrast 1793 [graphic].

Description

Title: The contrast 1793 [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Murray, George, Lord, 1761-1803, artist.
Published / Created: [1793]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker, artist and imprint from an earlier state in the British Museum online catalogue. This state without imprint, possibly by a different publisher.
In lower right corner of plate: Price 3d plain, coloured 6d.
Six lines of text below each image: Religion, morality ... (under the image of British Liberty), Atheism, perjury ... (under the image of French Liberty), with additional line below both columns: which is best.
Later state, without the publication line, of No. 8284 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Temporary local subject terms: British Lion -- Liberty: allusion to Magna Charta -- Symbols: scales of Justice -- Ships -- Symbols: ship with the Union Jack as symbol of power -- Medusa as personification of French liberty -- Executions: Street lantern as gibbet -- Lighting: street light -- Decapitations -- Weapons: daggers.
Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials G R below.
Provenance: Walter Schatzki ; 1961.
Extent: 1 print : two round images on one plate, plate mark 24.9 x 34.8 cm, on sheet 27 x 39 cm
Edition: [5th state].
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1792
Etchings England London 1792
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Britannia (Symbolic character)
Liberty cap
Medusa (Greek mythology)
Subjects: Britannia (Symbolic character)
Liberty cap
Medusa (Greek mythology) > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1792
England > London > 1792

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