MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
05-60
Record number:
05-60-1
JCB call number:
J771 Z73e
Image title:
[Satire of national pride]
Creator 1:
Joseph Collyer
Creator 1 dates:
1748-1827
Creator 1 role:
Sculp
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[J. Wilkie... C. Heydinger]
Image date:
[1771]
Image function:
frontispiece
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
11.6 cm.
Image dimension width:
6.7 cm.
Page dimension height:
16.4 cm.
Page dimension width:
9.6 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Four men stand in a landscape with a pyramid and palm tree. Each figure wears a pair of large spectacles or eye-glasses. Another creature with hooves and wings rides a peacock and also wears spectacles. Decorative elements include a jester's head at the t
Source creator:
Zimmermann, Johann Georg, 1728-1795
Source Title:
[Von dem Nationalstolze. English] An essay on national pride, ...
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for J. Wilkie, No. 71. St. Pauls Church-Yard, and C. Heydinger. opposite Essex-Street, in the Strand.
Source date:
M. DCC.LXXI. [1771]
notes:
Zimmerman was a Swiss physician and popularizer of philosophical ideas. As a physician, he attended George III of Hanover and Frederick the Great during his last illness. This 1771 English translation of his Vom Nationalstolz (1758) was unauthorized and r
Time Period:
1751-1800
Visual categories:
Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 2005.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Allegories
Subject headings:
Nationalism
Subject headings:
Satire

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