Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Phillips, Watts, 1825-1874
Title:
The model republic, or, Cato Potts in Paris [graphic] / by Watts Phillips.
Alternate Title(s):
Cato Potts in Paris
Published / Created:
[London] : Published by D. Bogue, 86 Fleet Street, [1850?]
Physical Description:
19 pictures on 4 joined sheets : hand-colored etchings ; sheets end-to-end 15 x 179 cm, accordion folded to 14 x 10 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DC149.5 .P45 1850
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Prints
Notes:
Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 582

Cover title.

Date of publication from Abbey.

BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. In publisher's original yellow pictorial boards. Bookplate: Georgii Somes Layard. Affixed to back cover is an ALS, dated April 12, from Watts Phillips to his physician.

Cartoon satire on the French Revolution, in 19 scenes. Accordion folded, with the first panel (bearing the title) affixed to front pastedown.
Subject Terms:
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789–1799 -- Caricatures and cartoons. | Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain. | Wit and humor, Pictorial. | Republicanism -- Caricatures and cartoons. | Political satire, English. | France -- History -- Revolution, 1789–1799 -- Foreign public opinion, British. | Paris (France) -- Humor -- Pictorial works. | Layard, Georgii Somes -- Bookplate. | Phillips, Watts -- To the doctor, ALS, April 12th.
Form/Genre:
Etchings -- Hand-colored -- 1850. | Accordion fold format (Binding)
Contributors:
Bogue, David, 1807 or 1808–1856, publisher.