Brittannia roused, or, The coalition monsters destroyed [graphic].

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Title: Brittannia roused, or, The coalition monsters destroyed [graphic].
Alternative Title: Britannia roused, or, The coalition monsters destroyed
Coalition monsters destroyed
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created: [3 February 1784]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A giant, half-nude female figure of Britannia swings terror-stricken diminutive figures of Charles Fox and Lord North in the air. Holding Fox by the ankle, she raises him above her head while North dangles by his neck from her other hand. Her shield and the liberty cap are beside her
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Date of publication from Grego.
1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27 x 20.2 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Formerly mounted on leaf 44 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Provenance: From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 28.1 x 21.2 cm, on sheet 37 x 25 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1784
Etchings England London 1784
Material: etching with stipple ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic): Britannia (Symbolic character)
Liberty cap
Subjects: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Britannia (Symbolic character)
Liberty cap
England > 1784
England > London > 1784
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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