Blessed are the peace makers [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pub. by E Dashery Feby. 24 1783 St. James's Street
[1783]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with engraving and stipple engraving ; plate mark 246 x 348 mm., on sheet 25 x 36 cm.

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 5, no. 6174

Abstract:

A Spaniard using his sword as a walking stick and capering with satisfaction, leads a procession along a country road to a building inscribed "Inquisition." He is followed by a happy looking Frenchman who pulls George III on a rope tied around the King's neck and through a gate made from two vertical spears with a third one tied horizontally on top. A lion is falling down from it while the unicorn tries to balance itself and the crown. The King is followed by Lord Shelburne (William Petty), mimicking both the royal posture and dress, and holding a rolled document signed 'Preliminaries." Their orderly progress is watched by a lean, simply dressed man holding in his right hand a scourge with many lashes and the word "America" between them. With his left, he pulls the rope tied around the neck of a boorish Dutchman, his hands stuck in his pockets, smoking a pipe.

Variant Titles:

Blessed are the peacemakers

Topics:

Clothin
Crowns
Dutch -- Caricatures and cartoons
French -- Caricatures and cartoons
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Lions
Marching
Ropes
Spanish -- Caricatures and cartoons
Spears
Unicorns
Whips

Topics:

Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1760-1789

Language:

English

Genre:

Engravings -- England -- London -- 1783
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1783
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1783

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

783.02.24.02+

Orbis Record:

6786682

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05137

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10724708

PID:

digcoll:552124