File:The Powerful Arm of Providence (BM 2001,0729.28).jpg
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[edit]The Powerful Arm of Providence ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
Print made by: James Gillray
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Title |
The Powerful Arm of Providence |
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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 |
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Date |
1800 date QS:P571,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
2001,0729.28 |
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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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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File change date and time | 15:39, 26 May 2005 |
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