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Isaac Cruikshank
1756?-1811?
A picture of Great Britain in the year 1793
etching :
image: 305 x 390 mm; sheet: 361 x 415 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2420
Published:
[London] : Pub. by J. Alexander No. 323 Strand, 1794 January 9.
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Attributed to Isaac Cruikshank in M.D. George's Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
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Beneath the center of the design is inscribed: 'Dedicated to the Associations for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers.' On the left and right are quotations from "Paradise Lost."
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Summary:
Print shows Charles James Fox and Richard B. Sheridan rushing from the jaws of hell (on right) to undermine the foundation of the British Constitution (at center), and standing behind a wall (on left) are the "Associations for Perserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers."
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