French happiness English misery / [graphic]

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Title: French happiness English misery / [graphic]
Alternative Title: English misery
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [3 January 1793]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. Janry. 3, 1793 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Description: Title from item.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher's advertisement following imprint: who again has opened his caracature [sic] room to which he has added several hundred old and new subjects. Admitance [sic] 1sg.
Pricing information below title: To those who give them away 1£ 11s 6d pr hundred plain and 3£ 3s 0d in colours.
Price in lower right corner: 6d plain, 1s colored.
Temporary local subject terms: French uniforms: sansculottes -- Battles: allusion to French victory at Jemappes, 6 Nov. 1792 -- Symbols: tree of Liberty as a twig -- Food: roast beef -- Pudding -- Crucifixes as support for dagger and noose -- Executions: hangings -- Torture -- Starvation -- Satiety-- Food: frog -- Rats -- Pets: cats -- Fireplaces -- Songs: allusion to "O the Roast Beef of Old England" -- Allusion to "God Save the King" -- Allusion to "Rule Britannia" -- Toasts: "The King and Constitution forever" -- Bible -- Dishes: pitchers -- Farming: plowing -- Bird cages -- Assignats -- Beer.
Provenance: Caricatures, vol. 2, no. 274.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 25 x 40 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1793
Engravings England London 1793
Etchings England London 1793
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1793
England > London > 1793

Access: Public
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