File:The Historical Painter (BM 1868,0808.5135).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(1,600 × 1,578 pixels, file size: 881 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

The Historical Painter   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist

Print made by: William Dent

Published by: J Cattermoul
Title
The Historical Painter
Description
English: Fox, as Cromwell, in a travesty of seventeenth-century dress, paints a picture of the execution of Charles I. The picture is supported at an angle on a table or stand and rests against the wall. Fox's palette is the base of a crown, his brush is a sceptre, the point of which he holds against the head of the prostrate king.


The picture represents the king face downwards, six men standing behind him, one the headsman with an axe, another a man holding an open book. The background is the façade of the Banqueting House. In the foreground are two symmetrical rows of flat circular hats representing the heads of spectators. The frame is inscribed 'Outlines' and (below) 'Jan. 30'.
Fox wears a cloak, slashed doublet and breeches, a high-crowned hat in which a large fox's brush takes the place of a feather; this is inscribed 'The Man of Moderation'. He stands in profile to the right, painting with a complacent expression. Behind him stands Justice (left) with her sword (inscribed 'Justice') raised to strike. In her left hand she holds scales; in the higher scale (right) sits a fox, which is much outweighed by the other, inscribed 'Loyalty'. She stands in front of a pillar inscribed 'Pro rege, lege, grege'. In the foreground, in front of Fox, lies a sword partly drawn from the scabbard, its blade inscribed 'Commonwealth'. Against its hilt is propped an open book, 'Patriotism by C. Cromwell'. A cat of demon-like appearance crouches towards the book.
Another picture hangs above that on which he is working. It represents a fox (left) standing on its hind legs and presenting a document inscribed 'Independence' to America in the guise of an Indian brave (right); it holds the cap of Liberty on a staff. Behind the fox is a setting sun; another (? rising) sun shines down upon the Indian; both have faces. 10 February 1784


Etching
Depicted people Representation of: Charles James Fox
Date 1784
date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 228 millimetres
Width: 232 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5135
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

One of many satires representing Fox as Cromwell. See BMSat 6380, &c. For Fox and America cf. BMSat 5987.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5135
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Licensing[edit]

This image is in the public domain because it is a mere mechanical scan or photocopy of a public domain original, or – from the available evidence – is so similar to such a scan or photocopy that no copyright protection can be expected to arise. The original itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer.

You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 70 years: Mexico has 100 years, Jamaica has 95 years, Colombia has 80 years, and Guatemala and Samoa have 75 years. This image may not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the rule of the shorter term. Honduras has a general copyright term of 75 years, but it does implement the rule of the shorter term. Copyright may extend on works created by French who died for France in World War II (more information), Russians who served in the Eastern Front of World War II (known as the Great Patriotic War in Russia) and posthumously rehabilitated victims of Soviet repressions (more information).

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

This tag is designed for use where there may be a need to assert that any enhancements (eg brightness, contrast, colour-matching, sharpening) are in themselves insufficiently creative to generate a new copyright. It can be used where it is unknown whether any enhancements have been made, as well as when the enhancements are clear but insufficient. For known raw unenhanced scans you can use an appropriate {{PD-old}} tag instead. For usage, see Commons:When to use the PD-scan tag.

Note: This tag applies to scans and photocopies only. For photographs of public domain originals taken from afar, {{PD-Art}} may be applicable. See Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current08:54, 9 May 2020Thumbnail for version as of 08:54, 9 May 20201,600 × 1,578 (881 KB)Copyfraud (talk | contribs)British Museum public domain uploads (Copyfraud/BM) Satirical prints in the British Museum 1784 #2,087/12,043

You cannot overwrite this file.

The following page uses this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:The_Historical_Painter_(BM_1868,0808.5135).jpg&oldid=420804848"