TITLE: Virtual representation, 1775 CALL NUMBER: PC 1 - 5286 (B size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-1522 (b&w film copy neg.) RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY: Print shows Lord Bute aiming a blunderbuss at a man representing colonial America; a member of Parliament, pointing at the American, tells Bute "I give you that man's money for my use", to which the American responds by saying, "I will not be robbed". On the right, blindfolded, Britannia is about to stumble into "The pit prepared for others" while behind her, in the background, "The English Protestant town of Boston" is in flames. On the left kneels a monk holding a gibbet and a cross, behind him stands a Frenchman with sword raised; perched on a cliff and forming the backdrop to Bute, the monk, and the Frenchman, is the city of Québec. MEDIUM: 1 print : etching and engraving. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1775 April 1. NOTES: Title from item. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5286 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. 683. SUBJECTS: Bute, John Stuart,--Earl of,--1713-1792. Québec (Province). Quebec Act. Politics & government--England--1770-1780. Punishment & torture--Massachusetts--Boston--1770-1780. Britannia (Symbolic character)--1770-1780. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. FORMAT: Cartoons (Commentary) British 1770-1780.Intaglio prints 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 3a05313 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a05313 CONTROL #: 2004673310
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