Britania's assassination, or, the republicans amusement.

1782

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Depicts the new ministry attempting to push down an already headless statue of Britannia. Thurlow and Mansfield on right pull on ropes to keep the statue in place, while Fox (depicted as a fox), Wilkes, Dunning, Richmond, Burke and Keppel attack it. Britain's foreign enemies (America, France, Spain, and Holland) run away with pieces of the statue.

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Part of Omega Project

Project Omega was conceived by the Library's Strategic Council - a scoped three year project aimed to facilitate the effective discovery and presentation of our collections, with a focus on the digitization of the Special Collections Graphic Arts backlog in Firestone library.

Part of Comic Art Collections

Several Princeton collections have strong holdings in comic art, cartoons, and pictorial satire. The Graphic Arts Collection has several thousand caricatures in the form of prints or drawings, mainly in the Dickson Q. Brown '95 Collection of Thomas Rowlandson and the Richard W. Meirs '88 Collection of George Cruikshank.

Part of Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection

The Graphic Arts Collection holds prints, drawings, photographs, paintings, sculpture, and printed ephemera along with an international book collection specializing in fine press,

Part of James Gillray Cartoons

James Gillray (1756–1815) was a British artist known for his caricatures and satirical prints.

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