Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Geography bewitched! Or, a droll caricature map of England and Wales.
Call Number
E South 11/GC021/Box 06/Normal/18th c./Artist Dighton GA 2011.00601
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc5425kp44m
Publisher
London : [s.n.], 1794/06/04.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1794
Extent
1 item ; sheet 21.3 x 17.6 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
British Museum. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, [1978]. No. 8397
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Engravings, Aquatints, Hand coloring
Depiction: Caricature map with personification of the map of England and Wales; male figure holding tankard, riding sea monster; designed to fill the combined geographic boundaries of the two countries.
Signed in plate, lower center: "Dighton del.".

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Maps—Great Britain—1794
Maps—Wales—1794
Drinking—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Sea monsters—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Personification in art
Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Wales—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2a4054f8-556f-4e29-9fc8-dececb3e2200/manifest