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The debilitated situation of a monarchal Government . . .

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Artist Unknown Americanengraver and painter

CultureAmerican

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The debilitated situation of a monarchal Government . . .

Date1836

Probable placeUnited States

MediumLithograph and watercolor on wove paper

DimensionsImage: 11 7/8 × 16 3/4 in. (30.2 × 42.5 cm)
Sheet: 17 3/4 × 20 1/4 in. (45.1 × 51.4 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of the estate of Miss Ima Hogg

Object numberB.79.286

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ProvenanceMiss Ima Hogg; Estate of Miss Ima Hogg, 1975; given to MFAH, 1979.
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Inscribed below image, left: The debilitated situation of a monarchical Government when puffed up by pride and self-importance, whose resources must be wrung from the people's hands. The difficulties to which a State must never be exposed.
Inscribed below image, right: The flourishing condition of a well-formed industrious Republic. The willingness displayed by the citizen of a free State to serve his country with his blood and fortune.
Inscribed below image, center: a medallion with the head of Liberty, surrounded by stars, below which is: Can freedom find no champion and no child / Such as Columbia saw arise when she / Sprung forth a Pallas, arm'd and undefiled? / Or must such minds be nourished in the wild, / Deep in the unpruned forest, 'midst the roar / Of caturacts, where nursing nature smiled / On infant Washington? Has earth no more / Such seeds within her breast, or Europe no such shore? / Byron. Ch. Har. Pilg. XCVI
[Reilly 199, p. 76]

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