TITLE: The colossus of the North; or the striding Boreas CALL NUMBER: PC 1 - 5242 (b&w print) (A size) [P&P]PC 1 - 5242A (color print) Another impression, hand-colored. REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-34869 (b&w film copy neg.) RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY: Print shows Lord North, astride a stream flowing from Westminster Hall, standing on two blocks labeled "Tyranny" and "Venality"; flowing down stream are members of Parliament, at the head of the stream stands John Wilkes, saying "I'll stem the stream", to his right stands Britannia holding a broadside which states "Those that should have been my preservers have been my destroyers". MEDIUM: 1 print : etching and engraving. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [1774 December 1] NOTES: Title from item. Includes accompanying text "A vision" mounted below print. DLC Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5242 Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 675. SUBJECTS: North, Frederick,--Lord,--1732-1792. Wilkes, John,--1725-1797. Politics & government--England--1770-1780. Legislative bodies--England--1770-1780. Giants--1770-1780. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. FORMAT: Cartoons (Commentary) British 1770-1780.Intaglio prints British 1770-1780. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a35354 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a35354 CONTROL #: 2004673306
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