Library of Congress Open Archive Initiative Repository 1
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This is an extensive repository containing material relating to the American experience, a large portion of it digitised from the Library of Congress' collections. It includes, but is not limited to, images, monographs, sheet music, sound and visual recordings, pamphlets and posters. It is subdivided into over 100 thematic collections based on original documentation format, subject, author or donor. The site also benefits from an extensive range of background documentation and information on the creation, maintenance and development of this repository. Individual sections of the collection are periodically highlighted, and materials advising on the use of this repository's contents in a classroom situation are also provided. Each major subsection has a discrete site design and interface, although they are all part of the overarching whole.
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The royal hunt, or a prospect of the year 1782
Print shows Lord Sandwich playing a fiddle, sitting between two courtesans, to the left, Lord North yawns while sitting on a sack, behind them are Rigby, Amherst, and Germain. To the right of this party is standing William Pitt (the younger), Charles James Fox, Edmund Burke, and Lord Richmond; they are critical of the debauchery of Sandwich and the others while the temple of Fame, representing the British empire, is being destroyed by France, America, Holland, and Spain, represented by four men who are pulling down the pillars which support it. A distraught Britannia is sitting on her shield in...
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The British lion engaging four powers
Print shows a lion confronting a spaniel, representing Spain, a fighting cock, representing France, a rattlesnake, representing America, and a pug dog, representing Holland.
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The state cooks making peace-porridge
Print shows several British ministers, Keppel, Fox, Richmond, Conway, and others, preparing a porridge of peace to offer Holland, France, and Spain, and separately to a Native wearing a feathered headdress and skirt, representing America, who hesitates, refusing to accept until seeing how palatable to her European allies.
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The American rattlesnake presenting Monsieur his ally a dish of frogs
Print shows a rattlesnake, representing America, presenting a basket of frogs to a Frenchman. Includes a short verse advising Britons to drive a wedge between the Americans and the French during the peace negotiation process.
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The horrors of war a vision or a scene in the tragedy of K:Rich:3
Print shows Lord North and another minister having a vision of the atrocities committed against America; they see an image of corruption holding a cup of poison from which Britannia, reclining with sheild and spear, has drunk, and a Native wearing feathered headdress and skirt, representing America, with mutilated breast, standing on a cloud enveloping infants and weapons.
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Peace porridge all hot - the best to be got - Colley, Thomas, fl. 1780-1783, artist.
Print shows an Englishman and servant offering bowls of "peace porridge" to a Frenchman, a Spaniard, a Dutchman, and a Native woman representing America. The Native says, "I rest Contented with a dish of Independant Soup." Includes text of a song sung to the tune of "Roast Beef of Old England."
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The times, anno. 1783 - Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist.
Print shows John Bull throwing up his arms in despair as the devil flies away with a map labeled "America"; to the left are a portly Dutchman, a Spaniard, and a Frenchman, in the background is a battle scene at Gibraltar.
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Amusement for John Bull & his cousin Paddy, or, the gambols of the American buffalo, in St. James's Street - Fielding, John, bookseller.
Print shows several ministers helping themselves to fishes and loaves that have spilled from a fishwife's basket which was upset by a rampaging "American Buffalo"; among those depicted are the Duke of Portland, Lord Cavendish, Lord North, Charles Fox, Lord Thurlow, Admiral Keppel, Lord Shelburne, and Thomas(?) Pitt. George III watches the shameless opportunism from a window in the background.
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The [ass]-headed and [cow-heart]-ed ministry making the British [lion] give up the pull
Print shows the British lion harnessed on one side of "the pit of ruin" and a spanial (for Spain), a cock (for France), a rattlesnake (for America), and a pug dog (for Holland) harnessed on the other side, pulling against each other; a double-headed eagle (for Russia) is standing on solid ground between them, refusing to favor either side. Four "ass-headed" ministers council the lion and tug on a rope with which it is muzzled, attempting to turn it away from its ministrations.
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The general p--s, or peace
Print shows five men, an Englishman, a Dutchman, a Native representing America, a Spaniard, and a Frenchman urinating into a pot. The Englishman says, "Say what they will, I call this an honourable P--," the Native says, "I call this a free and Independent P--," and the Frenchman says, "Jack English we confess your exceeding good nature, tho' we have wrangled you out of America you freely make P-- with us." Five swords, two drums, and the flags of the respective nations rest on the ground before the pot. Includes sixteen line of verse.
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The inquisitorial triumph, or the investiture of orator M[ackli]n
This record contains unverified, old data from an unpublished P&P checklist, "British Political and Social Cartoons, 1655-1832 ... not in the published catalogs of the British Museum," compiled in 1968 (NC 1470.M4. Vol.1).
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[Dancer on stage]
"A young dancer, Vestris fils (Vestr' Allard) in the centre of the stage..." (Source: George)
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Theatrical doctors recovering Clara's notes!
"Mrs. Billington, enormously fat, sits in an arm-chair, her arms flung over its arms, opening her mouth for a spoonful of guineas, administed by W. T. Lewis (right), who bends over her ..." (Source: George)
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Don Jumpedo in the character of Harlequin jumping down his own throat
"An engraving, showing Harlequin, the lower half of his body placed within a sort of pedestal, gradually disappearing down his own throat, his mask appearing above; his legs and much of his body and head are gone, his arms are hanging down..." (Source: Stephens)
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[Robert Powel the Puppet Show man]
"This engraving, which formed the frontispiece to "A Second Tale of a Tub : or, the History of Robert Powel the Puppet-Show-Man..." (Source: Stephens)
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A strolling player. Comedy - Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?, artist.
This record contains unverified, old data from an unpublished P&P checklist, "British Political and Social Caricatures, 1655-1832 ... not in the published catalogs of the British Museum," compiled in 1968 (NC 1470.M4. Vol. 2).
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Counsellor O. P.--defender of our theatric liberties - Gillray, James, 1756-1815.
"Counsellor Clifford, realistically drawn, stands in profile to the left, his feet together, holding behind his back a flaming fire-brand, emitting thick clouds of smoke ..." (Source: George)
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