- 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) and 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 wh
- 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:
- View by request in the Study Room
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:29806
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