Louisbourg blockt up [engraving]|Louisbourg 1755 [engraving]|British resentment, or, The French fairly coopt in Louisbourg [engraving]
1755
IN L2005F180 1698/1811 ff
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Title
Louisbourg blockt up [engraving]|Louisbourg 1755 [engraving]|British resentment, or, The French fairly coopt in Louisbourg [engraving]
Published
[London] Publish'd according to act of Parliament 25 Sept.er 1755
Description
1 engraving : col. ill. ; 23 x 33 cm. on a sheet 46 x 29 cm.
Call Number
IN L2005F180 1698/1811 ff
Note
The engraver may have been either Louis Philippe Boitard or his son Louis Pierre, both of whom were known as caricaturists in London.
First title from the base of the central pyramid in the caricature.
See English caricature to 1800 : catalogue 34, December 1993, nos. 77-79 for other Byng-related caicatures by Louis Boitard; see also M. D. George English political caricature, p. 101, which describes an engraving possibly identical to this one entitled "British resentment, or the French fairly coopt in Louisbourg"; it too was published in September 1755. A copy owned by the National Maritime Museum may be seen through its internet catalog.
Engraved text provides keys to the illustration: 1. Brittania reacting to the complaints of her injur'd Americans, receives them into her protection. 2. Neptune and Mars unite ... 3. The British lion, keeping his dominions under his paw ... [Ohio, Virginia, Nova Scotia, Quebec] 4. The British arms eclipsing those of France. 5. A British sailor pointing to the eclipse ... 6. An English saylor [sic] ... squeezes the Gallic cock by the throat and makes him disgorge the French occupations in America [Niagara, St. John's, Beausejour, and Ohio]. 7. A French political schemer beholds the operation with grief ... 8. The English rose erect, the French lily drooping. 9. A gang of brave saylors exhulting at the starving Fench coopt up. 10. The French overset at the fall of Niagara. 11. Cromwells device. 12. A monument due to real merit
The monument (#12) reads: In the year 1755, British resentment was commenc'd by the brave Captain How [sic] in the Dunkirk under ye command of the gallant Admiral Boscawen
On leaf 25r of The tragedy of Admiral Byng, 1756-1757
First title from the base of the central pyramid in the caricature.
See English caricature to 1800 : catalogue 34, December 1993, nos. 77-79 for other Byng-related caicatures by Louis Boitard; see also M. D. George English political caricature, p. 101, which describes an engraving possibly identical to this one entitled "British resentment, or the French fairly coopt in Louisbourg"; it too was published in September 1755. A copy owned by the National Maritime Museum may be seen through its internet catalog.
Engraved text provides keys to the illustration: 1. Brittania reacting to the complaints of her injur'd Americans, receives them into her protection. 2. Neptune and Mars unite ... 3. The British lion, keeping his dominions under his paw ... [Ohio, Virginia, Nova Scotia, Quebec] 4. The British arms eclipsing those of France. 5. A British sailor pointing to the eclipse ... 6. An English saylor [sic] ... squeezes the Gallic cock by the throat and makes him disgorge the French occupations in America [Niagara, St. John's, Beausejour, and Ohio]. 7. A French political schemer beholds the operation with grief ... 8. The English rose erect, the French lily drooping. 9. A gang of brave saylors exhulting at the starving Fench coopt up. 10. The French overset at the fall of Niagara. 11. Cromwells device. 12. A monument due to real merit
The monument (#12) reads: In the year 1755, British resentment was commenc'd by the brave Captain How [sic] in the Dunkirk under ye command of the gallant Admiral Boscawen
On leaf 25r of The tragedy of Admiral Byng, 1756-1757
Source of Acquisition
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