File:The Thames or the Triumph of Navigation (caricature) RMG PY7365-002.jpg

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Author
James Barry (artist, engraver and publisher)
Description
English: The Thames or the Triumph of Navigation (caricature)

'The Thames, or the Triumph of Navigation', by the artist James Barry (1741-1806. The image includes two couplets from the poem 'Cooper's Hill' by Sir John Denham (1615-1669):

Nor are his blessings to his banks confin'd, But free and common as the sea or wind; So that tp us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange.

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The Thames or the Triumph of Navigation. Barry. PAH7365
Date 1 May 1791
date QS:P571,+1791-05-01T00:00:00Z/11
Dimensions Sheet: 500 x 675 mm; Plate: 419 x 555 mm
Notes Box Title: Caricatures 1. Mostly 19th century.
Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/147312
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