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The Colonies Reduced / Its Companion   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Benjamin Franklin

Published by: John Almon
Title
The Colonies Reduced / Its Companion
Description
English: Two satires on the conflict between Britain and the American colonies in the period after the passing, and repea,l of the Stamp Act; frontispiece to the Political Register, December 1768.


The upper print shows Britannia leaning against a globe, her limbs severed and lettered wit the names of the colonies: "Virg[inia]; Pennsyl[vania]; New York; New Eng[land]. A ribbon draped across her is lettered "Date Obolum Bellisario", in reference to the fallen Greek general. Behind her lie her shield and her lance, pointing at her heart; beyond are ships at anchor with brooms at their masheads signifying that they are for sale. In the foreground, on the right, is a shattered British oak, and on the right, an olive branch that has fallen from the hand of Pennsylvania.
The lower print shows America (a native American) with a snake at her feet rushing into the arms of a delighted Louis XV who says, "Now me vill be de grande Monarque indeed ! me vill be King of de whole World begar." He protects America with a pistol and a sword with which he pierces the eye of Britannia who is brandishing her lance while grabbing America's feather skirt. Behind Britannia stands Lord Bute, stabbing her in the back of her neck and lifting her skirt; he addresses a French(?) man holding a birch and a scourge, saying "Now I show you her Weakness you may strike Home"; a Spanish man on the right pierces Britannia's buttocks with a sword. In the background, a Dutchman makes off with a British ship.


Etching and engraving
Depicted people Representation of: America
Date 1768
date QS:P571,+1768-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 182 millimetres (trimmed?)
Width: 110 millimetres (trimmed?)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1855,0609.1925
Notes

The upper print is a version of one produced by Benjamin Franklin while in London in 1766 with the title "Magna Britannia: her Colonies Reduc'd" (see Tim Clayton, War of Words, in V. Bajou (ed.), Versailles and the American Revolution, exhibition catalogue, Versailles, 2016, and, "Magna Britannia: her Colonies Reduc'd", http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-13-02-0023 (accessed 3 April 2018) [Original sourece: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 13, pp.66-72]

Stephens notes that the prints appeared as the frontispiece to the August 1768 issue of the Political Register, but it actually appeared as the frontispiece to the December 1768 issue (information from Tim Clayton).
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1855-0609-1925
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