Grand Irish air balloon [graphic]

Description

Title: Grand Irish air balloon [graphic]
Creator: Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
Published / Created: Octr. 7th, 1784.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. as the act direct, by J. Brown, Rathbone Place
Description: Title from item.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Three lines of text below title.
Temporary local subject terms: Hot air balloons -- Boats -- Cannons -- Apothecary's pestle and mortar -- Hibernia (Symbolic character) -- Fights; duels -- Expressions of speech: 'Neck or nothing' -- Allusion to the American War of Independence -- Allusion to Fox-North Coalition, 1783 -- Spy-glasses -- Devil -- Clergy: Jesuits.
Partial watermark center left side of sheet.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch ; December 8, 1966 ;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 35 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1784
Drypoints England London 1784
Etchings England London 1784
Material: etching & drypoint ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Hall, Edward, active 1784-1793
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809
Subject (Topic): Britannia (Symbolic character)
Subjects: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 > Caricatures and cartoons
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Hall, Edward, active 1784-1793 > Caricatures and cartoons
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809 > Caricatures and cartoons
Britannia (Symbolic character)
England > 1784
England > London > 1784

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