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Retaliation or state of nations.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Retaliation or state of nations.
Description
English: Outside a small cottage or summer-house a bee-hive stands on a table. Two men are being attacked by bees: one lies on his back waving his arms and legs, the other is behind him, running away and beating off the insects which beset him. Behind (right) a man with a broom is coming to the rescue, but is about to be attacked himself.


Beside the cottage (left) a man (or woman), smoking a pipe, is squatting down and excreting. From a window just above him, a man leans out, vomiting on the head of the figure beneath. A figure seated on the roof is urinating on the head of the man at the window. 1782


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Date 1782
date QS:P571,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 99 millimetres
Width: 151 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4910
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)

The application of this satire to the international situation is general rather than precise. The coarseness of the subject is mitigated by the small scale and a sketchy treatment.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4910
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