Virtual representation, 1775 – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Virtual representation, 1775, an antique engraving rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Virtual representation, 1775
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The print's record names the Earl of Bute, the former prime minister whom many colonists and British critics blamed for shaping royal policy after he left office in 1763. It appeared on April 1, 1775, just weeks before the battles of Lexington and Concord, and it satirizes the British argument that Parliament represented the American colonies through "virtual representation," even though colonists could not vote for its members. The subjects listed in its record point to the 1774 measures that angered the colonies: the Quebec Act, which expanded Canadian territory, and the punishment imposed on Boston after the Tea Party. Prints like this one were a major way that British and colonial audiences argued over those policies.
| Created / published | 1775 April 1. |
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| Medium | 1 print : etching and engraving. |
| Genre | Cartoons (Commentary) British 1770-1780.Intaglio prints 1770-1780. |
| Notes | Title from item. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5286 Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 683. |
| Subjects | Bute, John Stuart,--Earl of,--1713-1792. Québec (Province). Quebec Act. Politics & government--England--1770-1780. Punishment & torture--Massachusetts--Boston--1770-1780. Britannia (Symbolic character)--1770-1780. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,047 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109502 |
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