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- Title:
The Phoenix or the Resurrection of Freedom
- Date:
- 1776
- Medium:
- Engraving and aquatint , published state
- Dimensions:
- Plate: 17 x 24 1/8in. (43.2 x 61.3cm), Sheet: 18 x 25 1/8in. (45.7 x 63.8cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Engraved inscriptions: on pavilion, "LIBERT. AMERIC"; on monument at right, "This Monument / to the Memory of / ish / Freedom a Current degene / te / Nobility / & Gentry, dissipated / poor / raparious & / dependent upon the / Court"; on fragments, "athens / Rome / Florence"; on tombstone on left, "Upon pain of my (?) captivity, death, and Torture I prohibit / my holding any / intercourse with those / Audacious (?) Asserters of human rights / on the other side of / this Atlantic / Giv at our Pat / U & C"; on scroll below sickle, "Every like loves his like or 40 reasons why the hallow (?shallow) is half characters were in every art so peculiarly selected and Patroni 3ed in this Reign / Occasional remarks on the Reign of w"; and below at center, "The Phoenix or the Resurrection of Freedom Respectfully dedicated to the present Minority in both Houses of Parliament, by an Artist / O Liberty thou Parent Virtue thou hatest the Luxurious & Intemperate & hast Italy & thy more favor'd England when thy great corrupt & worthless, thou hast given them over to & despondery & taken thy flight to a new people of manners simple and untainted Hallowed & venerable are thy footsteps, Time that best Arbiter shall distinguish & strew they track with honors / Publish'd by J. Almon according to Act of Parliament Dec. 1776"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.11067
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- religious and mythological subject
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:29806
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