Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Geography bewitched! Or, a droll caricature map of Scotland.
Call Number
E South 11/GC021/Box 06/Normal/18th c./Artist Dighton GA 2011.00602
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcn8710357p
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. 8398
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Engravings, Aquatints, Hand coloring
Depiction: Caricature map with personification of the map of Scotland; male figure seated on sack; designed to fill the geographic boundaries of the country.
Signed in plate, lower center: "Dighton del.".

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Maps—Scotland—1794
Personification in art
Scotland—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/d51e12d6-621d-4f87-bac1-8c629b4c461d/manifest