Situation de l'Angleterre Au Commencement du 19ieme Siecle.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Rare engraving. Sheet: 220 x 165mm (8½ x 6½"). Trimmed. Creasing
A French satirical cartoon commenting on the state of Britain's finances following the French Revolutionary Wars and the American Revolutionary Wars in 1803. Britannia is shown protecting her head from a cloud of falling bills which pile up around her, the British leopard lies squashed beneath them, rats in the background & a squashed cat under bills.
See Ref: 26592
[Ref: 43654] £140.00
Rare engraving. Sheet: 220 x 165mm (8½ x 6½"). Trimmed. Creasing
A French satirical cartoon commenting on the state of Britain's finances following the French Revolutionary Wars and the American Revolutionary Wars in 1803. Britannia is shown protecting her head from a cloud of falling bills which pile up around her, the British leopard lies squashed beneath them, rats in the background & a squashed cat under bills.
See Ref: 26592
[Ref: 43654] £140.00