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Political satire: Britannia and Columbia with Ulysses S. Grant.
1820-1914
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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.
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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,
Metadata
- Call Number
- D Middle 76/GC168/Box 07/Normal/19th c./Artists T-Z GA 2006.02102
- Publisher
- n.d.
- People
-
- Author
- Tenniel, John, 1820-1914
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Subject
- Caricature
- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885—Caricatures and cartoons
- Great Britain—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Political cartoons—Great Britain—19th century
- United States—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Personification in art
- Columbia (Symbolic character)—Caricatures and cartoons
- Britannia (Symbolic character)—Caricatures and cartoons
- Presidents—United States—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Generals—United States—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- Political satire: Britannia and Columbia with Ulysses S. Grant.
- Call Number
- D Middle 76/GC168/Box 07/Normal/19th c./Artists T-Z GA 2006.02102
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dcf7623s253
- Publisher
- n.d.
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Date Created
- 1820-1914
- Extent
- 1 item ; sheet 26.2 x 18.3 cm.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Medium: Pencil drawings on paper
- Depiction: Britannia shows document to Columbia; Grant stands beside them, dressed as Roman warrior, arms crossed proudly over chest, smoking cigar.
- Inscribed in pencil, lower right: "#1622". Lower center: "650.000".
- Item description: Probably for a cartoon for Punch.
- Signed with monogram, lower left.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Caricature
- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885—Caricatures and cartoons
- Great Britain—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Political cartoons—Great Britain—19th century
- United States—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Personification in art
- Columbia (Symbolic character)—Caricatures and cartoons
- Britannia (Symbolic character)—Caricatures and cartoons
- Presidents—United States—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Generals—United States—19th century—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/a02a59be-9a70-493f-a897-64a6e3597520/manifest