What may be doing abroad - what is doing at home – Antique Print
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(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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What may be doing abroad - what is doing at home comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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What may be doing abroad - what is doing at home
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The title sets up a deliberate contrast between what may be happening abroad and what is happening at home. Dated 1769 and engraved for the *Political Register*, a London periodical that took a sharp anti-ministerial line, the print turns its viewers' attention toward the American colonies, where opposition to the Townshend duties and the presence of British troops was growing, even as domestic political quarrels consumed Britain. Satirical prints like this circulated widely and were a major way ordinary readers followed public affairs. Today the Library of Congress holds it in its British cartoon collection, and it is cataloged among graphics documenting the American Revolution.
| Created / published | [1769] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching and engraving. |
| Genre | Cartoons (Commentary) British 1760-1770.Intaglio prints British 1760-1770. |
| Notes | Title from item. Design'd & engrav'd for the Political Register. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4287 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. 645. |
| Subjects | Rulers--1760-1770. Politics & government--England--1760-1770. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 928 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-122570 |
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