The horse America, throwing his master – Vintage Wall Art
(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 historic print captures The horse America, throwing his master in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The horse America, throwing his master
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Here the American colonies appear as a horse, and the rider being thrown is King George III, whose authority the colonies were rejecting. William White published this etching in Westminster on August 1, 1779, during a flood of British political caricature about the war. By then France had allied itself with the colonies (1778), and satirists often portrayed the conflict as a humiliation for the Crown. The title does most of the work, so the picture rewards a close look at how the horse and rider are drawn.
| Created / published | Westminster : Pubd. by Wm. White, 1779 Aug. 1. |
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| Medium | 1 print : etching. |
| Genre | Cartoons (Commentary) British 1770-1780.Etchings 1770-1780. |
| Notes | Title from item. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5549 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. 749. |
| Subjects | George--III,--King of Great Britain,--1738-1820. Horseback riding--1770-1780. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,452 × 1,147 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219096 |
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