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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2019.213
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Regarding the State of the English Nation, in the Year 1778
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1780
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/365335

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
image: 17 × 26 cm (6 11/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
plate: 20.6 × 26.8 cm (8 1/8 × 10 9/16 in.)
sheet: 21.6 × 29 cm (8 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 28518 [encircled]
  • watermark: top edge of sheet: [illegible text]
  • inscription: upper left, in plate: PHILADELPHIA
  • inscription: bottom of sheet, below image, in plate: MAL LUI VEUT MAL LUI TOURNE DIT LE BON HOMME RICHARD / Sujet Mémorable des Révolutions de l'Univers
  • inscription: lower left of sheet, in plate, captions: Ameriquain / Anglois
  • inscription: lower right of sheet, in plate, captions: Commerce / d'Angleterre / Hollandois / Espagnol / Fraoncois

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[William Reese Company, New Haven], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2019

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year
2019
Object Number
2019.213
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • International Lampoon: Acerbic Wit in Pictures, Poetry & Prose, auct. cat., William Reese Company (New Haven, 2019), no. 5, repr.

Verification Level

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