141.
- Published / Created:
- [1833?]
- Call Number:
- 833.00.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Britannia leaning against a globe, her limbs severed and lettered wit the names of the colonies: "Virg[inia]; Pennsyl[vania]; New York; New Eng[land]. A ribbon draped across her is lettered "Date Obolum Bellisario", in reference to the fallen Greek general. Behind her lie her shield and her lance, pointing at her heart; beyond are ships at anchor with brooms at their masheads signifying that they are for sale. In the foreground, on the right, is a shattered British oak, and on the right, an olive branch that has fallen from the hand of Pennsylvania."-- British Museum online catalogue for a copy of this same print "The colonies reduced".
- Description:
- Title from heading above image. Words 'Magna" and "Reduced" larger and in all capitals., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Below image: To face page 422, Vol. I., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Cf. A version of an image produced by Benjamin Franklin while in London in 1766 with the title "Magna Britannia: her Colonies Reduc'd" (see Tim Clayton, War of Words, in V. Bajou (ed.), Versailles and the American Revolution, exhibition catalogue, Versailles, 2016, and, "Magna Britannia: her Colonies Reduc'd".
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Magna Britannia her colonies reduced. [graphic]