George III; A Aspinall, edBiblio.com
GEORGE IIIBiblio.com
The Reign of George III from his Accession to the Throne October 25th 1760 to the Present Period.
1812réf. 166835London: Rymer & Son 1812. Mapping the Age of Revolutions This visually arresting and minutely detailed chronology presents two concentric spirals radiating from a central portrait of George III offering a spectacular timeline of a half-century of conflict embellished with portraits of the king Pitt Fox Nelson and Wellington. The inner delineates the "various administrations formed during his reign" while the outer charts major events including the conclusion of the Seven Years War the American Revolution the Napoleonic Wars campaigns in South Asia and the opening salvoes of the War of 1812. The densely printed text also includes relevant statistical information particularly as relates to the major campaigns: numbers of troops under arms sailors at sea prisoners taken cost of supplies but also the funded national debt annual expenditure and ticking steadily throughout the price of a peck loaf. In each corner is a portrait of a hero of the period: "In an age abounding with so many Warriors & Senators whose equals the page of History can scarcely produce it is difficult to select the most suitable characters to adorn this design or those who have been most active in the great Events of our own times but none seem to have diffused the rays of glory with greater splendour round the nation than Nelson and Wellington. Fame will transmit to distant posterity the vigorous eloquence of Fox and Pitt & exhibit them as patterns worthy their imitation. The portraits are esteemed striking likenesses". Produced by the Edinburgh-born engraver and reform-leaning Whig Malcolm Rymer 1775-1835 the timing of the publication produced close on the removal of all restrictions on the powers of the Prince Regent and the catastrophist litany of disorder in 1812 - "Alarming Riots in Nottinghamshire Lancashire and Yorkshire" the assassination of Spencer Percival "The Old Administration continues with a few trivial changes" - suggests critical intent. Copper engraving printed on vivid yellow silk "handkerchief" 840 x 860 mm. Elaborate decorative frame comprised of a narrow chequered band enclosing a wide scrolled foliate border set with the Royal Arms centrally top and bottom and the Imperial State Crown with crossed rose and thistle with banderolle reading"dieu et mon droit" placed at the sides. Housed in grey archival box. Somewhat worn overall thinned and slightly faded and with some minor marginal loss top and bottom and a few splits but overall complete and remains striking good or better. Examples traced to the Victoria and Albert 1985/2028 Metropolitan Museum of Art 62/271 Art Institute of Chicago 2005.68 "cotton plan weave" and The Society of the Cincinnati M. 218.002 "ochre cotton plate-printed in dark red pigment". See Rebecca Nesvet "Science and Art a Farce in Two Acts" Scholarly Editing 38 2017. unknown
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