The blessings of peace – Antique Print
![The blessings of peace, [London] : Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, by M. Smith in Fleet Street, 1783 April 16th. — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9a/9acb8a5f3752-L.webp)
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Benjamin Franklin appears in this 1783 London cartoon alongside George III, Charles James Fox and Lord North, with witches and a sunrise or sunset. Published by M. Smith on Fleet Street on April 16, 1783, it comments on the peace that ended the American Revolutionary War. Preliminary terms had been signed in late 1782, and the final treaty was still being negotiated in Paris, where Franklin was one of the American commissioners. That spring, Fox and North had formed an uneasy coalition ministry, which the king disliked, and political cartoonists of the period often used such pairings to mock the men involved.
| Created / published | [London] : Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, by M. Smith in Fleet Street, 1783 April 16th. |
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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. 6212 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. 856. |
| Subjects | George--III,--King of Great Britain,--1738-1820. Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806. North, Frederick,--Lord,--1732-1792. Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790. Politics & government--England--1780-1790. Government officials--England--1780-1790. Peace--1780-1790. Witches--1780-1790. Sunrises & sunsets--1780-1790. Advice--1780-1790. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Peace. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,123 × 4,095 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-208163 |
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