British Resentment or the French fairly Coopt of Louisbourg.

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• ARTIST: Louis Philippe Boitard

• PUBLISHER: Printed for J. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, & Jn. Bowles & Son, in Cornhil.

• MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving,

  DATE: 1755.

• EDITION SIZE: Image size 7 5/8 x 12 15/16" (19.5 x 32.9 cm). Paper size 10 1/8 x 14 5/16" (25.8 x 36.4 cm)

• DESCRIPTION: L. Boitard Invt. et Delin. Published according to Act of Parliment 25 Septr. 1755. J. June Sculpt.<br><br> Celebration of British victories over France in North America. English blockade of Louisbourg. Images include: America as an Indian; Britannia; Britain as a lion; British coat-of-arms; French coat-of-arms; France as a cock; the "people of France" as politicians; people of Louisbourg, caged; Mars; Neptune; Niagara Falls; British sailors; British soldiers; British Navy; English rose, thriving; French lily dying.

• ADDITIONAL INFO:

• CONDITION: Good condition. Overall time-toning. Backed on thin rice paper. Original hand coloring.

• REFERENCE: Stephens, Frederic George and Mary Dorothy George, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, Vol. III Part II, #3332. OCLC 270931718, 4975644, 693489898 and #701835477.

• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Caricatures and Satirical