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[Toestand der Engelsche Natie] (State of the English Nation)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
[Toestand der Engelsche Natie] (State of the English Nation)
Description
English: Satire on the defensive alliance against Britain; a cow representing the commerce of Great Britain has its horns cut off by an American, assisted by other nations. The ship is inscribed "Eagle" and the town "Philadelphia" as in BMSat 5472. c.1780
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Depicted people Associated with: Adm Richard Howe, Earl Howe
Date between 1778 and 1781
date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1778-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1781-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 213 millimetres
Width: 280 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1871,1209.4926
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) A copy on a larger scale of BMSat 5472. With the plate is a printed explanation ('verklaring') which is a translation of the original explanation in the 'Westminster Magazine', the allusion to the appointment of commissioners to negotiate with the Americans being omitted. The artist was ignorant of the evacuation of Philadelphia (June 1778) and the return of the Howes to England. The multiplication of copies of this print, see BMSat 5726 A, B, and C, and BMSat 5727, shows its propaganda-value as damaging to British prestige, and illustrates both the hopes which were entertained in Holland and France of securing the commerce with the colonies which England had monopolized, and also the belief in the efficacy of commerce-destroying in war, especially against a commercial country like Great Britain. See Mahan, 'Influence of Sea Power upon History', 1890, p. 539. It was also copied for American circulation in 1778 and (apparently) again in 1780, by Paul Revere, see BMSat 5472. See also BMSat 5859, a sequel to this print. A reduced copy is No. 15 in BMSat 5728. The title is taken from the explanatory pamphlet which accompanies BMSat 5728. In the 'Verklaring' it is 'den Staat der Engelsche Natie in 1778'. Van Stolk, BMSat 4287 (1). Muller, BMSat 4337 (1).

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A Dutch copy of an English satire (BMSat 5472) of 1778, which was itself copied by the Americans and Dutch. The later dating of this copy is suggested by George.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1871-1209-4926
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