The rose, shamrock, & thistle, [1815]
- Title(s):
- The rose, shamrock, & thistle.
- Additional Title(s):
- Rose, shamrock, and thistle.
- Published/Created:
- [Great Britain] : [publisher not identified], [1815]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : engraving ; plate mark 17 x 13 cm
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsDC239 .R67 1815+ OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/11288948
- Classification:
- Prints
- Notes:
- "To general union, this plate containing profiles of eight illustrious personages is most humbly inscribed, by a friend of liberty."
"Left side: Prince Regent, King of Prussia, Marshall Blucher. Right side: King of England, Emperor of Austria, Duke of Wellington. Center: Louis XVIII, Emperor of Russia."
BAC: British Art Center copy is hand-colored. Trimmed to plate mark.
A picture puzzle engraving of a patriotic posy, the leaves of which frame voids in the shape of the profiles of eight British and European leaders in coalition against Napoleon. It may have been produced as a response to the Bonapartist "Corporal Violette," whose flower included profiles of the Emperor Napoleon, Maria Louisa, and the young King of Rome. - Subject Terms:
- Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777–1825.Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von, 1742–1819.Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768–1835.Frederick William III, King of Prussia, 1770–1840.George III, King of Great Britain, 1738–1820.George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762–1830.Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1800–1837.Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755–1824.Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769–1821 -- Elba and the Hundred Days, 1814–1815.Napoleonic Wars, 1800–1815.Signs and symbols -- Political aspects -- Europe.Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769–1852.
- Form/Genre:
- Botanical illustrations.
Optical illustions.
Trompe l'oeil.
Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1815.
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