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Figure 7.6

The British nations: John Dixon’s 1774 engraving ‘The Oracle’. Lit up in the centre (left to right) are Ireland, England/Wales, Scotland; on the right, neither polite nor English, is America
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Dinesh said:

Rather like the Anglo-Irish, Anglo-Americans looked not quite English to the English themselves – ‘unworthy of the name Englishpmen’, Benjamin Franklin angrily concluded, ‘fit only to be snub’d, engraving published in London in 1774 (Figure 7.6) to sum up English condescension about American identity. Father Time, at the left, is delighting Britain’s nations with a vision of their glorious future. In the centre sit three fair, fashionably dressed maidans, representing from left to right, Ireland, Britannia (standing for England and Wales) and Scotland. At the right, couching beneath them, is a dark-skinned, scantily clad America, complete with bow and feathered head-dress. The point says, Colley, is that Anglo-Americans had yet to evolve a recognisable and autonomous identity of their own. Being part of the picture and yet so different from the Islanders, they provide ‘profound uncertainty about the workings of the imperial relationship. This was about to become a problem. ~ Page 297

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William Sutherland said:

Impressive image!
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