- Title:
- French Liberty - British Slavery
- Date:
- 1792
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching, hand-colored
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 x 14in. (25.4 x 35.6cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, upper left: "'O', Sacre Dieu! vat blessing be de Liberte, | Vive le Assemblé Nationale! no more Tax! | no more Slavery! all Free Citizen! ha hah! | by Gar, how ve live! ve svim in de Milk & Honey!'"; upper right: "'Ah! this cursed Ministry! they'll ruin | us, with their damn'd Taxes! | why, Zounds! they're making Slaves of | us all, & Starving us to Death!'"; lower center: "Js. Gy. desn. et fect. pro bono publico"; lettered below image, lower left: "FRENCH LIBERTY."; lower center: "London. Pubd December 21st, 1792. by H. Humphrey No 18 Old Bond Street"; lower right: "BRITISH SLAVERY."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.957
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:44087
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English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-09-01 - 1985-11-13) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985-06-04 - 1985-09-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, p. 370, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBA [ORBIS]