John Bulls alternative [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- John Bulls alternative [graphic].
- Contributor
- Darly, M. publisher.
- Published / Created
- [1781?]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- M. Darly
- Abstract
-
"John Bull stands on a stone on tiptoe under a tree, a rope round his neck attached to a branch of the tree. He holds the rope with both hands, to prevent strangulation. On the right stands a Frenchman (France) holding out a leek to John Bull, between them is a stream or river. John Bull is a moderately stout man with a thick neck, wearing an ill-made bob-wig, not the characteristic John Bull of later satires, who had already appeared, see British Museum Satires Nos. 5611, 5612. The Frenchman is very thin, wearing a night-cap, a long pigtail queue, a ruffled shirt, and sabots stuffed with grass."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Publisher and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
Temporary local subject terms: France as a French peasant -- Emblems: Leek for France -- ?Reference to defeat at Yorktown.
Second of two plates on leaf 32. - Provenance
- P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 17.7 x 25 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 28 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title
- Leaf 32. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Collection Date
- [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1781
Etchings England London 1781 - Material
- etching ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- France.
- Subject (Topic)
-
John Bull (Symbolic character)
Hangings (Executions)
Nooses
Peasants
Onions
Streams
Wigs - Subjects
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John Bull (Symbolic character) > Caricatures and cartoons
Hangings (Executions)
Nooses
Peasants > France
Onions
Streams
Wigs
England > 1781
England > London > 1781
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
- 13894145
- Object ID (OID)
- 16737555