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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Prerogatives defeat or liberties triumph
Print shows Charles James Fox helping John Dunning walk on the prostrate bodies of the Earl of Bute and Lord North; a Scotsman attacks Dunning from behind, and in the background on the left, an Irishman and America (represented by a Native wearing a feathered headdress) are commenting on the scene taking place in front of them.
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Westminster election 1780
Print shows Lord Lincoln standing on the right of St. Paul's portico, Charles James Fox standing in the center with Britannia and the British lion, and on the left, James Young, acting as proxy for Admiral Rodney, with Neptune, during the Westminster election; a large crowd fills the foreground.
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The late auction at St. Eustatia - by R-- & V--
Print shows the interior of an auction house where Admiral Rodney and General John Vaughan are disposing property seized from citizens on the island of Saint Eustatius which the British captured from the Dutch.
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The state nurses - Colley, Thomas, fl. 1780-1783, publisher.
Print shows the Earl of Mansfield, seated, and the Earl of Sandwich keeping watch over the British lion asleep in a cradle around which are four barking dogs labeled "Holland", "America" who is urinating on a paper labeled "Tea Act", "France", and "Spain"; in the background, on the left, Gibraltar is under siege by the Spanish, and on the right, men (possibly George III) and dogs are hunting for stag.
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Don Volaseo - the famous Spanish partizan - Colley, Thomas, fl. 1780-1783, publisher.
Print shows a man (possibly Edmund Burke) wearing military uniform sitting on a horse, in the middle background is a marquee before which a woman is sitting at a table drinking wine, in the distant background is a manor house.
168.
John Bulls alternative
Print shows John Bull (representing England) standing on his toes on a rock, a rope around his neck and tied to a limb above him; on the right, across a body of water (probably representing the English Channel) stands a Frenchman holding a leek which he offers to John Bull.
169.
General Oglethorpe - Bretherton, Charles, 1760-1783, publisher.
Print shows James Oglethorpe, bust portrait, right profile.
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The bull over-drove, or, The drivers in danger - Harris, John, 1756-1846, publisher.
Print shows a bull trampling the prostrate body of Lord Sandwich, lead driver, and kicking toward Lord North and George Germain, the "drivers in danger." The bull is charging toward three men, representing France, America, and Spain; in the background, on the left, British sailors cheer.
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The political mirror or an exhibition of ministers for April 1782
Print shows Lords Sandwich, Rigby, North, Mansfield, an unidentified man, and Germain in the clutches of a devil, fall into an abyss, driven there by the opposition, or new ministers, Thurlow, Conway, Camden, Barré, Burke, Richmond, Rockingham, Fox, Wilkes, and Byng. Above the scene an angel shines "The mirror of truth" on the old ministers, and Lord Bute, riding on the back of a witch over the abyss, exclaims, "England's evil genius unhorsed or the downfall of Witchcraft."
172.
The catch singers
Print shows Lord North, on the right, Lord Germain, and Lord Sandwich (or Richard Howe) sitting around a table, with William Howe standing at the end of the table on the left; they are toasting their financial success as a result of the war in America.
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Britania's assassination, or -- the republican amusement - Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist.
Print shows members of the new ministry, among them, Fox, Wilkes, Dunning, Richmond, Burke, and Keppel, dismantle a statue of Britannia; they are prevented from doing further damage by Thurow and Mansfield who pull them away from the statue with a rope. A Native American, representing America, a Frenchman, a Spaniard, and a Dutchman run off with pieces of Britannia.
175.
Anticipation; or, the contrast to the royal hunt
Print shows the restoration of England under the new ministry; the pillars that supported the Temple of Fame are being righted and put back in place; a soldier with sword in hand protects a Native, representing America, from a Dutchman who kneels in supplication, as a Frenchman and a Spaniard flee his menacing posture. Lord North is caricatured as a washerwoman, Lord Sandwich as a ballad-singer, and Lord Rockingham as an oculist restoring sight (and reason) to George III who will renounce the hunt and return to the affairs of state.
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Prince Stadhold--r resuming his deliberation - Colley, Thomas, fl. 1780-1783, artist.
Print shows a caricature of Prince William V of Holland as a slightly obese man, of deficient intellect, with empty ("MT") trouser pockets, and holding a sword by the blade against his breast, while notes and voices about how poorly the war in America is going for him unsettle his thoughts.
177.
The Shell--born Jes--t
Print shows the Earl of Shelburne, full-length portrait, left profile, as a Jesuit.
178.
The thunderer - Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist.
Print shows Banastre Tarleton boasting of his exploits to the Prince of Wales outside a brothel labeled "The Whirligig."
179.
L--d Shel--, begging Monsieur to make piss or p--e
Print shows Lord Shelburne holding a chamber pot up to a Frenchman, saying "Monsieur, be so obliging as to make piss with us." The Frenchman is kicking the pot, saying, "By the House of Bourbon, with the war we'll go on."
180.
Wonders wonders wonders & wonders - dedicated to the wonderfull wonderfull wonderer
Print shows Britannia and America, several British ministers, and King George III, they appear as couples shaking hands, except for the central figure of three. Standing on the left is Britannia with the British lion at her feet, largely obscured by her shield, she is shaking hands with a Native woman, representing America, wearing a feathered headdress and skirt, and holding a staff topped with a liberty cap; to the right, in the background, stands the Duke of Richmond shaking hands with the Rev. Henry Bate Dudley; next Sir Hugh Palliser and Admiral Keppel are shaking hands; and on the...
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