| Creator |
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 artist. |
| Contributor |
DuSimitiere, Pierre Eugene, ca. 1736-1784, collector. |
| Title |
Magna Britannia, her colonies reduc'd. [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
[London: s.n] |
| Publisher |
ENG. London. 1766 |
| Date |
[ca. 1766] |
| Physical Description |
1 print : etching mounted on paper; image 8 x 13 cm.(3.25 x 5 in.); overall 26 x 25 cm.(10 x 9.75 in.) |
| Description |
Print of Franklin's anti-Stamp Act cartoon, originally issued on card stock and distributed to members of Parliament prior
to debate on the repeal, depicting a dismembered Britannia to represent the alienation of the American colonies as a consequence
of non-repeal. Shows Britannia, fallen of and resting against the globe of the world, her limbs inscribed with the names of
the colonies strewn around her, her shield fallen beside her, and her lance, speared through her "New England" leg, pointed
at her chest (allusion to the New England riots). She sits upon a barren land, near a withered English oak, a dropped olive
branch, and British ships marked for sale by brooms attached to their masts. A sash inscribed in Latin, "Penny for Bellisario"
(Roman military hero of Emperor Justinian accused of treason and reduced to beggary), lies across her chest.
|
| Is referenced by |
See Murrell, Graphic Humour p. 4. |
| Notes |
Manuscript note by DuSimitiere on recto: North America November the first MDCCLXV. The original print done in England on the
back of a message card, the invention and for the use of Benjamin Franklin Esq.; LL.D. agent for the Province of Pennsylvania,
in London.
|
|
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited. |
|
Described in Edwin Wolf and Marie Elena Korey, eds. Quarter of a Millennium... (Philadelphia, The Library Company of Philadelphia,
1981), entry 40.
|
|
See Edwin Wolf's "Benjamin Franklin's Stamp Act Cartoon" Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 99 (1955), p. 388-396. |
| Subject |
Great Britain. Stamp Act (1765) |
| Geographic subject |
Great Britain -- Colonies -- America. |
|
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States. |
|
United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain. |
|
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes. |
| Genre |
Political cartoons -- 1760-1770. |
|
Etchings -- 1760-1770. |
| Provenance |
DuSimitiere, Pierre Eugene, ca. 1736-1784, collector. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| political cartoons - [1766] Mag [395.F.5] |
| Accession number |
395.F.5 |
