Dec 17, 2020 - Sale 2555

Sale 2555 - Lot 332

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Guttenberg, Carl. The Tea-Tax Tempest, or the Anglo-American Revolution. Large engraved allegory on laid paper. 19x3 1/4 inches sheet size, wide margins; a crisp dark impression, small marginal repairs else nice. [Nuremberg, 1778]

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English title only. Leaning on a large terrestrial globe, Father Time projects a magic lantern display to a group of women personifying the four continents. The illuminated scene depicts Stamp Act documents set ablaze while a rooster, symbolic of France, fans the flames to such a degree that a teapot explodes with signifiers of Liberty spouting from its steam. The inspired Americans charge forward as the British cower and flee. British Museum Satires 5490.