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The Tea-Tax-Tempest, or the Anglo-American Revolution.
1778
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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
- A Middle 29/Drawer 10/GC018/Half Folio/17th-18th c./Artists A-Z GA 2024.00217
- Publisher
- [s.l.] : [s.n.], n.d. [ca. 1778]
- People
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- Author
- Guttenberg, Carl, 1743-1790
- Related Name
- Dixon, John, 1720-1804
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Subject
- Taxation—United States—History—18th century—In art
- United States—History, Military—18th century—In art
- United States—History—Revolution, 17751783—Campaigns—Massachusetts—Boston—In art
- Projectors in art
- Father Time (Symbolic character) in art
- Indigenous peoples—North America—18th century—In art
- Indigenous peoples of North America—18th century—In art
- Personification in art
- Symbolism in art
- Black people—Africa—18th century—In art
- Autos-da-fé—In art
- Tell, Wilhelm—Art
- Indigenous Studies
- Art
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- The Tea-Tax-Tempest, or the Anglo-American Revolution.
- Call Number
- A Middle 29/Drawer 10/GC018/Half Folio/17th-18th c./Artists A-Z GA 2024.00217
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dcxs55ms39p
- Publisher
- [s.l.] : [s.n.], n.d. [ca. 1778]
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Date Created
- 1778
- Extent
- 1 item ; sheet 44.7 x 55.3 cm.
- References
- Roylance, Dale. American Graphic Arts, 1990, p. 50.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Depiction: Father Time projects his magic lantern show of the violent reaction to the new Tea Tax in America. The audience is made up of four figures representing the four continents.
- Item description: This print is an adaptation of John Dixon's "The oracle representing Britannia, Hibernia, Scotia & America", 1774.
- Unsigned.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Taxation—United States—History—18th century—In art
- United States—History, Military—18th century—In art
- United States—History—Revolution, 17751783—Campaigns—Massachusetts—Boston—In art
- Projectors in art
- Father Time (Symbolic character) in art
- Indigenous peoples—North America—18th century—In art
- Indigenous peoples of North America—18th century—In art
- Personification in art
- Symbolism in art
- Black people—Africa—18th century—In art
- Autos-da-fé—In art
- Tell, Wilhelm—Art
- Indigenous Studies
- Art
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 1
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Omega Project
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/50eeae83-2baf-42ec-b84c-b8799e0a9de8/manifest