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Downfall of Monopoly in 1800   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Thomas Rowlandson

Published by: Ackermann
Title
Downfall of Monopoly in 1800
Description
English: Death, the central figure, chases monopolizers who are in headlong flight to the left, shadowed by heavy clouds. Behind him is a statue of Britannia holding spear and cornucopia, the lion beside her dominates the scene. Men and women dance round the pedestal in frantic joy. On the right, in full sunshine, two women and three naked infants rejoice over a loaf inscribed 'Quartern Loaf 8d'. In the background (right) is the shore on which are cattle and sacks, while a fleet of merchant ships approaches. 14 August 1800
Hand-coloured etching
Date 1800
date QS:P571,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 338 millimetres
Width: 452 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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1948,0214.607
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

The monopolizers and Death are the most prominent and important part of the design, to which the scenes of prosperity are a foil. Death is a skeleton flogging with a scourge a grisly white horse whose head and neck are skull and vertebrae. He rides over a prostrate grocer, whose 'Sugar' loaves and scales are beside him, the latter are inscribed 'Short Measure' and 'cheating Weights'. A fat man flees on a galloping pig, riding down a bearded Jew who slinks off with a sack of 'Bacon'. Two men on the extreme left flee with a pocket (large sack) of 'Hops' and a sheaf of 'Corn' respectively. On the hops crouches a frantic demon with a trident. Disks of 'Cheese' roll beside them. Other terrified figures are in deep shadow. A sign-post is inscribed 'Road to Hell'. See BMSat 9545, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1948-0214-607
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