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The present state of Little Britain.
1740
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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
- E South 11/GC021/Box 01/Normal/18th c./Artists A-Bre GA 2011.00476
- Publisher
- [s.l.] : [s.n.], n.d. [1740]
- People
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- Author
- Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Subject
- Sheet music—18th century
- Caricature
- Great Britain—History—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Personification in art
- International relations—History—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Symbolism in art
- Spain—History—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Hercules (Roman mythological character)—Caricatures and cartoons
- Great Britain. Treaties, etc—Spain, 1739 Jan. 14—Caricatures and cartoons
- Britannia (Symbolic character)—Caricatures and cartoons
- Mythology, Roman—Caricatures and cartoons
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- The present state of Little Britain.
- Call Number
- E South 11/GC021/Box 01/Normal/18th c./Artists A-Bre GA 2011.00476
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dc08613129q
- Publisher
- [s.l.] : [s.n.], n.d. [1740]
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Date Created
- 1740
- Extent
- 1 item ; sheet 36.4 x 22.4 cm.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Medium: Engravings, Hand coloring
- Numbered in plate, upper right: "71".
- Item description: Song sheet.
- Signed in plate, upper left: "Set by Mr. Carey".
- Depiction: Caricature; political cartoon. Allegorical scene. Britannia and Hercules seated on a cannon at left in foreground, Spaniard forcing scroll (Convention of Pardo) down throat of Englishman at right, ships sailing in background.
- Unsigned by the artist.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Sheet music—18th century
- Caricature
- Great Britain—History—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Personification in art
- International relations—History—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Symbolism in art
- Spain—History—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Hercules (Roman mythological character)—Caricatures and cartoons
- Great Britain. Treaties, etc—Spain, 1739 Jan. 14—Caricatures and cartoons
- Britannia (Symbolic character)—Caricatures and cartoons
- Mythology, Roman—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/4c33e356-b20d-4c95-91c9-8eb922ae1b77/manifest