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TITLE:  The fall of Washington--or Maddy in full flight

CALL NUMBER:  PC 1 - 12311 (A size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZC4-3115 (color film copy transparency)
LC-USZ62-1559 (b&w film copy neg.)
LC-USZCN4-211 (color film copy neg.)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:  Cartoon showing President James Madison and probably John Armstrong, his secretary of war, both with bundles of papers, fleeing from Washington, with burning buildings behind them.

MEDIUM:  1 print : engraving, color.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [London] : pubd. by S.W. Fores, 1814.

NOTES:

Forms part of :British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).

Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 66.

SUBJECTS:

Madison, James,--1751-1836.
Armstrong, John,--1758-1843.
United States--History--War of 1812--Destruction & pillage--British.
Fires--Washington (D.C.)--1810-1820.

FORMAT:

Cartoons British 1810-1820.
Engravings British Color 1810-1820.

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:  (color film copy transparency) cph 3g03115 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g03115
(b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a05348 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a05348

CONTROL #:  94507312


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