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Public execution of a tyrant / T.H.
etching and aquatint
plate mark: 234 x 184 mm; sheet: 248 x 200 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1974
Published:
[England] : Published as the Act directs March 1814, 1814 March.
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Lettered "T H / Published as the Act directs March 1814."
Below the title "A gibbet formed by the Allies, well supported by Old England. The British Oak & Lion, crushing & tearing the Corsican Viper, whose sting falls down harmless upon the Oak."
Summary:
A large serpent with a barbed tail is coiled round the post (inscribed 'Austria. Russia') of a gibbet, which is topped by a cap of Liberty with a French cockade; its neck is in a noose hanging from the cross-beam which is inscribed 'Holland'. A strut supporting the cross-beam is 'Spain'. A sloping oak tree inscribed 'England' supports the post, and the British Lion (left) furiously bites the serpent which spits venom, intercepted by the oak.
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