Engraved inscriptions: on pavilion, "LIBERT. AMERIC"; on monument at right, "This Monument / to the Memory of / ish / Freedom a Current degene / te / Nobility / & Gentry, dissipated / poor / raparious & / dependent upon the / Court"; on fragments, "athens / Rome / Florence"; on tombstone on left, "Upon pain of my (?) captivity, death, and Torture I prohibit / my holding any / intercourse with those / Audacious (?) Asserters of human rights / on the other side of / this Atlantic / Giv at our Pat / U & C"; on scroll below sickle, "Every like loves his like or 40 reasons why the hallow (?shallow) is half characters were in every art so peculiarly selected and Patroni 3ed in this Reign / Occasional remarks on the Reign of w"; and below at center, "The Phoenix or the Resurrection of Freedom Respectfully dedicated to the present Minority in both Houses of Parliament, by an Artist / O Liberty thou Parent Virtue thou hatest the Luxurious & Intemperate & hast Italy & thy more favor'd England when thy great corrupt & worthless, thou hast given them over to & despondery & taken thy flight to a new people of manners simple and untainted Hallowed & venerable are thy footsteps, Time that best Arbiter shall distinguish & strew they track with honors / Publish'd by J. Almon according to Act of Parliament Dec. 1776"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.11067
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
religious and mythological subject
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment (Harvard Art Museums, 2022-09-15 - 2023-01-16)The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09)The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01)William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism (Indiana University Art Museum, 1988-01-27 - 1988-03-06)William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism (Chicago Historical Society, 1988-04-06 - 1988-06-05)William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism (New York Public Library, 1987-10-31 - 1988-01-02)English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (The Library of Congress, 1984-11-13 - 1985-02-26)English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (National Gallery of Canada, 1985-02-26 - 1985-05-10)English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-09-01 - 1985-11-13)English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985-06-04 - 1985-09-05)William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06)William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14)
Publications:
Susan Bennett, Cultivating the human faculties : James Barry (1741-1806) and the Society of Arts, , Lehigh University Press, Bethlehem, Pa., 2008, p. 103, fig. 28, NJ18 .B2425 C85 2008 + (YCBA)Mary Caputi, A kinder, gentler America : melancholia and the mythical 1950s, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2005, pp.78-82, E169.12 .C274X 2005 (LC) (SML)Edouard Kopp, Dare to know : prints and drawings in the age of Enlightenment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, 2022, pp. 242, 243, 248, 310, Fig. 1, NC87 .D37 2022 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Finola O'Kane, Landscape design and revolution in Ireland and the United States 1688-1815, London, 2023, p.214, fig.182, SB470.5 .O43 2023 (YCBA) Oversize