- Additional Authors
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Description
- 1 sheet ([1] pages); 41 x 27 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Broadsides.
- Note
- Copper plate engraving of the well-known female figure with her limbs (representing the American colonies)--cut off. Benjamin Franklin invented the original caricature while in England in February 1766, for his own use on message cards that he distributed to officials to encourage repeal of the Stamp Act. According to Edwin Wolf, this broadside version of the engraving, greatly enlarged and with 34 engraved lines of "Explanation" and "Moral," was issued in America sometime between 1767 and 1769. Cf."Benjamin Franklin's Stamp Act cartoon, " by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, v. 99, 1955, p. 388-396.
- Photostat of original from one of the Du Simitière scrapbooks at the Library Company of Philadelphia, with his note at the foot, "Engraved in Philadelphia."
- Indexed In (note)
- Call Number
- *KVB (1765) (Magna Britania her colonies reduc'd)
- OCLC
- Title
Magna Britania her colonies reduc'd.
- Imprint
[Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1768]
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
sheet
- Indexed In:
Evans 10048
Hildeburn 2144
- Chronological Term
To 1775
- Added Author
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Research Call Number
*KVB (1765) (Magna Britania her colonies reduc'd)