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- Title:
- The Invasion, Plate 2: England
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1756
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 7/8 × 15 1/2 inches (32.7 × 39.4 cm), Image: 11 5/8 × 14 3/4 inches (29.5 × 37.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered above image, upper center: "ENGLAND PLATE 2d."; upper left: "Design'd & Etch'd by Wm. Hogarth"; upper right: "Publish'd according to Act of Parliament March 8th. 1756"; inside image, upper right: "Duke of Cumberland | Roast, & Boil'd every Day"; upper left: "You take a my fine Ships, you be de Pirate, you be de Teef, | me send my grand Armies & hang you all, Morblu!"; lower center: "Rule Britannia | Britannia rule the Waves, | Britons never will be slaves"; lower left: "God save great George our King"; below image, lower center: "See John the Soldier, Jack the Tar, | With Sword & Pistol arm'd for War, | Should Mounsir dare come here! | The Hungry Slaves have smelt our Food, | They long to taste our Flesh and Blood, | Old England's Beef and Beer! | Britons to Arms! and let 'em come, | Be you but Britons still, Strike Home, | And Lion-like attack 'em; | No Power can stand the deadly Stroke, | That's given from hands & hearts of Oak, | With Liberty to back em!"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.1447
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:42052
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Douglas Fordham, British art and the Seven Years' War, allegiance and autonomy , University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2010, pp. 72-75, fig. 22, N72.P6 F66 2010 (YCBA) [YCBA]