File:Den Britsen Leopard tot Reden gebracht (The British Leopard brought to Reason) (BM 1868,0808.4907).jpg
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Den Britsen Leopard tot Reden gebracht (The British Leopard brought to Reason) ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Title |
Den Britsen Leopard tot Reden gebracht (The British Leopard brought to Reason) |
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Description |
English: An answer to BMSat 5712. The figures have numbers which refer to a printed explanation pasted below the print, giving the words supposed to be spoken. In the lower half of the design a "pro-English Dutchman" (1) stands (left) facing and addressing (2) the British leopard, and (3) the Dutch lion, behind whom stand a row of persons representing the powers of Europe, &c. In the upper part of the design are (left) "Portsm.[outh]", represented by a coast-line and group of buildings. Off the coast is the word "Byland", representing the convoy taken to Portsmouth by Fielding, see BMSat 5628, &c. "Lisbon" is represented by a similar group of buildings, situated east (on right) of Portsmouth. Two crowned columns represent Dutch overseas possessions (the same symbol was used in English satires, cf. BMSat 5961), with the words "Berbic., Curac, St Eust., K. Bon Esp". Three isolated figures (13-15) fill the remaining upper part of the print (right).
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Depicted people | Representation of: Charles III, King of Spain | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1780 date QS:P571,+1780-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Current location |
Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.4907 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) War propaganda directed against the contentions that war with England would mean loss of Dutch colonial possessions, see BMSat 5712, and of Dutch investments in English securities, see BMSat 5717, 5718, 5720, 5724. One of a number of prints greatly over-estimating the benefits to Holland of the Armed Neutrality, see BMSat 5713-16, 5718, 5720, 5724, &c. It is unlike BMSat 5713-18, also anti-British, in being pro-French. For other prints showing the rancour left by the Dutch wars of the seventeenth century see BMSat 5718, 5729, 5730, 5731, 5732, 5733. The Dutch colonial possession of Berbice (in Guiana) was taken in 1781 by English privateers, but was retaken by the French in 1782. Curaçao, a Dutch trading-post in the West Indies, escaped capture. The Cape of Good Hope was saved from Commodore Johnstone by Suffren, see BMSat 5960, 6048. For St. Eustatius see BMSat 5557, &c. For the capture of Granada by the French see BMSat 5581. A reduced copy is No. 8 in BMSat 5728. Van Stolk, BMSat 4321. Muller, BMSat 4369. (Supplementary information) For another impression with letterpress text see 1862,0712.757 |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4907 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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