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The Repeal, or the Funeral of Miss Ame-Stamp

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Date

1766

Artist

Unknown Artist (British School)

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/388969

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British politicians are imagined processing through the London docks to mourn the repeal of the Stamp Act on March 18, 1766. A year before, Parliament had imposed this excise tax on printed goods imported to the American colonies. Resulting boycotts led British merchants to pressure the government for repeal, and this anti-tax image mocks the act’s leading supporters. Behind two flag bearers, George Grenville (dismissed as chief minister in 1765) carries a small coffin marked "Miss Ame[rica] Stamp." He is followed by Lord Bute, another former chief minister identified by his Scottish bonnet and tartan suit. The London publisher Carington Bowles borrowed the composition from a print issued by a rival that sold thousands of copies. It uses the language of political satire Romeyn de Hooghe developed in Holland, combined with a simple dramatic structure that makes the elaborate allegory easy to understand. Medium: hand-coloured etching.
Additional Makers: Carington Bowles I (1724–1793)

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CC0 1.0

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Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts

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London, England

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