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Magna Britania her colonies reduc'd.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 10048.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain. Stamp Act (1765).
- Great Britain.
- Stamp Act (Great Britain : 1765).
- Caricatures and cartoons--United States.
- Caricatures and cartoons.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--To 1775.
- Politics and government.
- Great Britain--Colonies--America.
- Colonies.
- America.
- Genre:
- Broadsides.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)) : illustrations (engraving)
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], [circa 1768]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Copper plate engraving of a female figure, representing the American colonies, with her limbs cut off. Followed by thirty-four engraved lines of "Explanation" and "Moral."
- The original caricature was invented by Benjamin Franklin while in England in February 1766 for use on message cards that he distributed to officials to encourage the repeal of the Stamp Act. This broadside edition was apparently issued in America sometime between 1767 and 1769; compare Wolf, Edwin. "Benjamin Franklin's Stamp Act cartoon" in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, volume 99, 1955, pages 388-396.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 10048).
- Cited in:
- Evans 10048
- Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2144
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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