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The Blessing of Peace, The curses of war.   (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: Hannah Humphrey
Title
The Blessing of Peace, The curses of war.
Description
English: A design in two adjacent circles, with inscriptions abo ve and below the circles on an aquatinted ground. In the manner of genre, not satire.


[1] The kitchen of a young English farmer who sits with his arm round a little boy (right) who stands at his knee eating an apple, while his pretty wife (left) holds out a buxom child to kiss him. He holds a sickle. A dog sits at his feet. Behind (right), before a blazing fire, a young woman places a sirloin of beef upon a round table, laid for a meal, with a large pitcher beside it. A pestle and mortar and other brass utensils are neatly ranged on the chimney-piece, beside which is a spit. A ham and string of onions hang on the wall. Through an open door (left) are a hen and chickens, two pigs feeding in a stye, and a haystack. The title continues: 'Prosperity & Domestick-Happiness.'
[2] A young farmer lies stabbed to the heart by a bayonet, surrounded by his despairing and terrified wife and three children. Behind (right) is a ruined house. In the background (left) French soldiers are driving off sheep and cattle, and a village (right) is in flames. Behind is the sea with ships of war at anchor. The title continues: 'Invasion, Massacre & Desolation.'
Above the two circles: 'Suck Britain was! - Such Flanders, Spain, Holland, now is!' Between them: 'from such a sad reverse O Gracious God, preserve our Country!!' Below them is etched: 'To the People & the Parliament of Great-Britain, this Print is dedicated, by the Crown & Anchor Society.
"Cursed be the Man who owes his Greatness to his Country's Ruin!!!!!' 12 January 1795.


Hand-coloured etching.
Date 1795
date QS:P571,+1795-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 315 millimetres
Width: 376 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.714
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) For Gillray's attitude to the Crown and Anchor Society, cf. BMSat 8316, &c. For prints on the horrors of war, see BMSat 8328, &c.; for comparisons of the state of England and France, BMSat 8284, &c. Grego, 'Gillray', p. 181. Wright and Evans, No. 112. Van Stolk, No. 5215. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.

Also two earlier states without letters. On one are tentative pencil inscriptions by Gillray, much corrected. They include, besides those adopted: 'of the truth of ye representation an appeal is made & submitted to the feelings of ye internal Enemies of Gt Britain.'
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-714
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