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[Cartoon depicting a Liberty Pole] [graphic].
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Contributor
Du Simitière, Pierre Eugène, approximately 1736-1784, collector.
Title
[Cartoon depicting a Liberty Pole] [graphic].
Publisher
N.Y. New York. 1770
Date
[New York]
Date
[ca. 1770]
Physical Description
1 drawing : pen and ink ; sheet 22 x 33 cm (8.5 x 13 in.)
Notes
Title from LCP exhibition catalogue: Pierre Eugene Du Simitière. His American Museum 200 years after, entry #8:8.
Date inferred from content.
Possibly by Pierre Eugene Du Simitière.
Du Simitière, a Swiss-born historian, antiquarian, and artist, traveled and documented North America and the West Indies from the 1750s to 1770s. He settled in Philadelphia in 1774, and in 1782 opened the American Museum, which contained his collected antiquities.
Purchase at auction, Du Simitière's American Museum, March 10, 1785.
Described in Michael Wynn Jones’s The cartoon history of the American Revolution (New York: G.P Putnam’s Sons, 1975), p. 36.
Minimal-level record.
Geographic subject
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Genre
Ink drawings -- 1760-1770.
Political Cartoons -- 1760-1770.
Provenance
Du Simitière, Pierre Eugène, approximately 1736-1784, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Du Simitière Collection [396.F.Vol. II]
Accession number
396.F.Vol. II
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