The contrast 1793 [graphic].Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[1793]engTitle from item.Printmaker, artist and imprint from an earlier state in the British Museum online catalogue. This state without imprint, possibly by a different publisher.In lower right corner of plate: Price 3d plain, coloured 6d.Six lines of text below each image: Religion, morality ... (under the image of British Liberty), Atheism, perjury ... (under the image of French Liberty), with additional line below both columns: which is best.Later state, without the publication line, of No. 8284 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.Temporary local subject terms: British Lion -- Liberty: allusion to Magna Charta -- Symbols: scales of Justice -- Ships -- Symbols: ship with the Union Jack as symbol of power -- Medusa as personification of French liberty -- Executions: Street lantern as gibbet -- Lighting: street light -- Decapitations -- Weapons: daggers.Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials G R below.