26 results filtered with: Britannia (Symbolic character)
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Britannia holds her discontented suckling child (King George III) and looks at it with sadness, above them the full privy purse of 1753 and the empty privy purse of 1773. Etching.
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'The universal magazine' enabling the sciences and arts to flourish. Etching, 174-.
Date: [between 1740 and 1749?]Reference: 2439196i
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W.E. Gladstone as Dr. Faustus making a pact with Mephistopheles in order to satisfy his political ambitions. Lithograph by J.M Rogier, 12 December 1885.
Rogier, Jean Marius, 1851-1928.Date: Dec.r 12th 1885Reference: 564639i- Pictures
Queen Anne. Engraving by J. Houbraken after G. Kneller, 1744.
Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646-1723.Date: Mar. 23. 1744Reference: 569591i- Pictures
King Charles I: Britannia mourns as he is executed and is raised into heaven by angels and cherubim. Engraving by B. Baron after J. Vanderbank.
Vanderbank, John, 1694-1739.Date: [1728]Reference: 2897021iPart of: Ten curious prints of the most remarkable transactions of the reign of King Charles 1st- Pictures
Lord North stands on two blocks astride a stream carrying members of parliament which flows from the door of Westminster Hall. Engraving, 1774.
Date: [1 Dec. 1774]Reference: 584819i- Pictures
Philosophy presenting 'The universal magazine' to Britannia. Etching, 174-.
Date: [between 1740 and 1749?]Reference: 2439100i- Pictures
Britannia seated on a throne attends to the complaints of injured Americans. Engraving by J. June after L. Boitard, 1755.
Boitard, Louis-Pierre, active 1733-1763.Date: 25 September 1755Reference: 579976i
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Astronomy: a muse shows a treatise on the stars to a ruler, surrounded by putti with attributes of the arts and sciences, in the background an observatory [Greenwich?]. Engraving.
Reference: 46156i
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A carriage representing "Radicalism" is being ransacked by a group of highwaymen, one of whom is wearing a shirt on which is written "Revolution". Lithograph after W. Morgan, 12 September 1885.
Date: 12 September 1885Reference: 564635i- Pictures
William Pitt the younger steers a small boat called 'The Constitution' with a single sail through huge waves between a high rock and a whirlpool accompanied by a buxom young Britannia who raises her hands in alarm. Etching by J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: [1830]Reference: 585510i
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Britannia and her lion are begging on a bench on the Thames Embankment, impoverished by proposed Liberal reforms; beyond, the Palace of Westminster in ruins. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 28 November 1891.
Merry, Tom, 1852-1902.Date: November 28th, 1891Reference: 565067i
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At a polling booth, reserve voters, consisting of disabled and sick men and others, proceed up the stairs to take oaths; in the background Britannia sits in a coach that has broken down while the coachman and footman play at cards. Engraving by William Hogarth and François Morellon de la Cave, 1758.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: Published 20 Febry 1758. as the Act directsReference: 38398iPart of: An election
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Lord North and the Earl of Mansfield stand on a platform addressing a group of distressed patriots beyond which ships of war sail and sink. Engraving, 1776.
Date: [1 Dec. 1776]Reference: 584820i- Pictures
Britannia holds her shield and cap of liberty on a staff as she rushes to the edge of a cliff urged on by Wellington and five other ministers. Coloured engraving, 1820.
Date: [?1820]Reference: 603169i- Pictures
Britannia is sitting opposite a river god in front of a landscape with an abbey in ruins, a manor house, a carriage and menhirs. Engraving.
Reference: 39097i
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An angel crowns Britannia as a reward for defeating France in the naval battle in the eastern Atlantic on 1 June 1794. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1803, after R. Smirke.
Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845.Date: 1803Reference: 37671i
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Anglo-American research on DNA represented by Britannia and the Statue of Liberty, with festoons of DNA. Scraperboard drawing by Bill Sanderson, 1990.
Sanderson, Bill.Date: [1990]Reference: 1891i
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Admiral Rodney stands between Britannia and Neptune. Etching by J. Gillray, 1782.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 1782Reference: 31722i- Pictures
Britannia, protected by the eye of God, sits in front of the ruins of two churches mourning the insignia of monarchy which are scattered before her, while a devil in the disguise of a cleric approaches her; in the background God holds a flaming sword over a battleground. Engraving by R. White.
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Britannia, holding the staff and cap of Liberty, addresses Mars and Neptune as representatives of Britons as they cut through a map of North America. Engraving by L. Boitard, 1755.
Boitard, Louis-Pierre, active 1733-1763.Date: August 11 1755Reference: 579975i
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Burdett, Peel, O'Connell and Wellington in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating John Bull with a rope; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching by A. Sharpshooter, 1829.
Sharpshooter, A.Date: [April 1829]Reference: 663317i- Pictures
Charles James Fox holds the right hand of Lord North who points towards Britannia who has been pushed to the ground on to her shield as the Earl of Shelburne pulls her hair and tears her clothes and William Pitt the younger looks on. Engraving, 1783.
Date: May 20 1783Reference: 585272i
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Britannia holding a trident in one hand and tobacco leaves in the other. Engraving by Silvester, early 19th century.
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King Charles I: after his execution, Britannia points to his elevation into heaven by angels. Etching after J. Vanderbank.
Vanderbank, John, 1694-1739.Reference: 6297i