Letters to the Irish nationalist leader John Dillon, including several sent during his imprisonment in Galway Gaol in 1891. Venturi offers support, political advice, and explanations of her own political and social convictions. Venturi disagreed stron...
Description:
Emilie Venturi (1820?-1893) was the intimate friend, political disciple, and literary executrix of Giuseppe Mazzini. Her first marriage ended in divorce; her second, to the Risorgimento volunteer Carlo Venturi, with his death in 1866. She was prominme...
Subject (Geographic):
Ireland--History--1837-1901 and Italy--History--1849-1870
Subject (Name):
Ashurst, W. H. (William Henry), 1792-1855, Balfour, Arthur James, 1848-1930, Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824--Influence, Dillon, John, 1851-1927, Mazzini, Giuseppe, 1805-1872, Parnell, Charles Stewart, 1846-1891, Venturi, Emilie Ashurst, -1893, and Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
Subject (Topic):
Anti-clericalism--England, Anti-clericalism--Italy, Home rule--Ireland, Irish question, Nationalism--Ireland, Nationalism--Italy, Nationalities, Principle of, Women social reformers--Great Britain--19th century, and Women's rights--Great Britain--19th century
Jones, Thomas Howell, active 1823-1848, printmaker
Published / Created:
[April 1829]
Call Number:
829.04.00.17+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"George IV, seated on the throne, watches a display of jovial fraternization between John Bull and Pat, who dance, holding hands, each holding up a hat decorated respectively by rose and shamrock. A lanky garland of (thornless) roses and giant shamroc...
Alternative Title:
Glorious march of intellect
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1829 by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Peel, Robert, 1788-1850
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Anti-Catholicism, National characteristics, Irish, Irish question, Gout, Ethnic stereotypes, Thrones, Crowns, Dance, Obesity, Roses, Shamrocks, Crutches, Clergy, Petitions, Bishops, and Miters
