P [graphic].

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Title: P [graphic].
Alternative Title: P, for the press that exposes the view which tyrants in despite of reason pursue ...
Creator: Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, G. 1773-1831?, publisher.
Published / Created: 1820.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Abstract: "A printing-press, behind which stands a printer; he shouts, waving his hat towards a placard on the wall: "The Queen for ever Procession to Brandenburg House." Behind him is pasted a large sheet of 'The Times October 1820'. On the left are three men in melancholy consultation. Behind them is a placard: 'The Liberty of the Press is like the air we breath, if we have it not, we die.' P. 16: P, for the Press that exposes the view, Which tyrants in despite of reason pursue, ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Alternative title from letterpress text on facing page of the bound work.
Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Plate from: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820.
Mounted on page 11 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Mounted opposite the sheet of corresponding letterpress text that would have faced the plate in the bound work.
Provenance: Purchased from Andrew Edmunds; September 2014.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 11.5 x 18 cm
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Book illustrations
Satires (Visual works) England 1820
Etchings England London 1820
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.
Rosco.
Subject (Topic): Printing presses
Subjects: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Rosco > Illustrations
Printing presses
England > 1820
England > London > 1820
Humphrey, G. (George), 1773-1831? > Ownership

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