Allegory on the power of Great Britain, 1787; The Increasing Grandeur of the British Nation. Allegory on the growing power of Great Britain in the year 1787. Central is a princess like Brittania with the Alliance Convention in her hand with the Republic and a palm branch referring to the recovery of Stadholder Willem V. with three other allegorical women. In the background left the French warship 'Ville de Paris' conquered in the naval battle at Les Saintes (12 April 1782). On the right a scene from the siege of Gibraltar in 1779. In the foreground the British lion beats to enemies as a four-m

Allegory on the power of Great Britain, 1787; The Increasing Grandeur of the British Nation. Allegory on the growing power of Great Britain in the year 1787. Central is a princess like Brittania with the Alliance Convention in her hand with the Republic and a palm branch referring to the recovery of Stadholder Willem V. with three other allegorical women. In the background left the French warship 'Ville de Paris' conquered in the naval battle at Les Saintes (12 April 1782). On the right a scene from the siege of Gibraltar in 1779. In the foreground the British lion beats to enemies as a four-member Hydra. With title, assignment and caption in English and the weapon of Great Britain.

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