File:A tea-tax-tempest- or old time with his magick-lanthern. (BM 1868,0808.4945).jpg

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A tea-tax-tempest- or old time with his magick-lanthern.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
A tea-tax-tempest- or old time with his magick-lanthern.
Description
English: A reduced and altered copy of BMSat 5490, evidently by an English artist. It is less heavily shaded, and the details are clearer. The chief alteration is a large white label issuing from the mouth of Time, covering much of the upper right corner of the design, and inscribed, "There you see the little Hot Spit Fire Tea pot that has done all the Mischief - There you see the Old British Lion basking before the American Bon Fire whilst the French Cock is blowing up a Storm about his Ears to Destroy him and his young Welpes - there you See Miss America grasping at the Cap of Liberty - There you see The British Forces be yok'd and be cramp'd flying before the Congress Men - There you see the thirteen Stripes and Rattle-Snake exalted - There you see the Stamp'd Paper help to Make the Pot Boil - There you See &c &c &c." 12 March 1783
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Depicted people Representation of: George III, King of the United Kingdom (?)
Date 1783
date QS:P571,+1783-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 253 millimetres
Width: 353 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4945
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) The scene thrown on the curtain by the lantern is copied with fair accuracy, except that the coffee-pot with its three legs and hinged lid has become an English tea-pot, its detached lid flying into the air. In place of the two books on the ground at Time's feet there is one book open at an illustration which represents a man (left) aiming with a cross-bow at a man on horseback, perhaps intended for George III, riding from left to right; there are three standing figures and in the air is what appears to be a crown.

For the snake emblem on the American flag see BMSat 5973 &c. For other references to the Stamp Act see BMSat 5487, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4945
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