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James Gillray
1756-1815
Britannia / G.M.
hand colored etching with aquatint
image: 263 x 296 mm; plate: 263 x 296 mm; sheet: 295 x 320 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2736
Published:
London : Pubd. by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street, June 25th, 1791
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Printed in lower right corner of iamge fram: G.M.
Title etched below image.
Questionable attribution to Gillray from the British Museum catalogue.
Summary:
A comic map of England formed by an old woman seated in profile to the left on the back of a dolphin-like monster, whose open mouth (right) represents the 'Thames', the two points of its tail being 'Lands End' and 'Lizard Point'. She holds a trident in her left hand. Her right hand (on which is a dove) and right foot form the north of Wales and the north of the the Bristol Channel. The peak of her cap is 'Berwick'. Many other names are inscribed round the coast. The sea forms a background.
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