The state cooks making peace-porridge – Antique Wall Art
![The state cooks making peace-porridge, [London] : Pubd. by E. Hedges, No. 92 Cornhill, 1782 July 6th. — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/52/52bbe1460c53-L.webp)
(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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This rare antique engraving captures The state cooks making peace-porridge in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The title, "The state cooks making peace-porridge," casts the government as a kitchen crew stirring a pot of peace, and the print names Augustus Keppel, Charles James Fox, Henry Seymour Conway and the Duke of Richmond as the ministers involved. It was published in London by E. Hedges on July 6, 1782, a few months after Lord Rockingham's government took office and began negotiating an end to the war in America. The subject list also ties the satire to talks with France, Spain and the Netherlands, and to the United States, so the cartoon comments on a diplomatic effort that many Britons found messy and divided.
| Created / published | [London] : Pubd. by E. Hedges, No. 92 Cornhill, 1782 July 6th. |
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| Medium | 1 print : etching and engraving. |
| Genre | Cartoons (Commentary) British 1780-1790.Intaglio prints British 1780-1790. |
| Notes | Title from item. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 6009 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. 822. |
| Subjects | Keppel, Augustus Keppel,--Viscount,--1725-1786. Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806. Conway, Henry Seymour,--1721-1795. Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox,--Duke of,--1735-1806 Government officials--British--England--1780-1790. International relations--Great Britain--1780-1790. International relations--Great Britain--1780-1790. International relations--France--1780-1790. International relations--Netherlands--1780-1790. International relations--Spain--1780-1790. Cookery--England--1780-1790. Peace--1780-1790. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,053 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109514 |
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