Thoughts on a regicide peace [graphic] / JS [monogram] f.

Published/Created:

[London]
Publd. by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
14 Octor. 1796

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 37.4 x 26.4 cm, on sheet 46 x 33 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8825

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Two lines of text following title: Frontispiece to a pamphlet which will never be published. "He shall never accuse me of being the author of a peace with regicide." Vide Mr. Burke's letter to a noble lord.
Temporary local subject terms: Regicide peace -- Reference to Malmesbury's peace mission, 1796 -- Military: Austrian grenadier -- Dutchmen -- Reference to the French occupation of the Dutch Republic -- British Lion -- Furniture: armchairs -- Dreams -- Music: c̦a ira -- La marseillaise -- Literature: quote from W. Shakespeare's King Richard II, ii.1.
Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec. 1966 ; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-6-42.
Mounted to 49 x 34 cm.

Associated Names:

Sayers, James, 1748-1823 [Printmaker]
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817 [Publisher]

Topics:

Britannia (Symbolic character)
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793
Musical instruments
Sansculottes

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1796
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1796

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

796.10.14.01+

Orbis Record:

8103942

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr09866

OID:

10952976

PID:

digcoll:951313