Original file (1,045 × 885 pixels, file size: 354 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Summary
| Description |
English: Britannia between Scylla & Charybdis. or— The Vessel of the Constitution steered clear of the Rock of Democracy, and the Whirlpool of Arbitrary-Power.
Depicted people: William Pitt the Younger, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Charles James Fox, Joseph Priestley and BritanniaJs. Gy. desn. et fect. pro bono publico. SUMMARY: Pitt steering small boat, The Constitution, which also carries Britannia, towards a castle with a flag inscribed "Haven of Public Happiness". They are pursued by Sheridan, Fox, and Priestley, who are sharks, dogs of Scylla. MEDIUM: 1 print : engraving, color. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [London] : Pub. by H. Humphrey, April 8th 1793. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-3137 (color film copy transparency), uncompressed archival TIFF version (4 MB), level color (pick white point), cropped, and converted to JPEG (quality level 88) with the GIMP 2.4.5. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Author |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
No known restriction on publication. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID cph.3g03137. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.
|
Licensing
|
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. | ||||
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| current | 07:47, 14 July 2008 | | 1,045 × 885 (354 KB) | wikimediacommons>Eubulides | Complete version, rather than being a useless snippet. Also, use a color version from the Library of Congress. |
File usage
There are no pages that use this file.
