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The Powerful Arm of Providence   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: John Fairburn
Title
The Powerful Arm of Providence
Description
English: Satire: Providence dropping her flowers on England, at end of rainbow, with storm raging in sky and 'cosmic' hand reaching out from behind cloud to crush solar system; this impression published 2 May 1831. 1800
Etching, aquatint and stipple
Date 1800
date QS:P571,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 326 millimetres (trimmed)
Width: 255 millimetres (trimmed)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
2001,0729.28
Notes This print was made in 1800 for a de luxe edition of the conservative 'Anti-Jacobin Magazine and Review' that was to consist of thirty to forty numbers with satirical prints by Gillray. In the end Gillray abandoned the project, frustrated at constant interference from the politician and journalist George Canning and others involved in the magazine. A unique hand-coloured proof of this print survives (see Richard Godfrey, 'James Gillray: The Art of Caricature', Tate Publishing, 2001, no.70), but there was no published edition until sixteen years after Gillray's death.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_2001-0729-28
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