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Correct-Cricket3355 OP t1_iyf7drp wrote
Reply to comment by bobbyamillion in The Destruction of the Royal Statue in New York - July 9, 1776 by Correct-Cricket3355
Five days after the Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia, a pro-revolutionary group known as the New York Sons of Liberty tore down a statue of George III standing at Broadway and Bowling Green. This imaginative recreation of that event correctly shows enslaved and free Black men performing most of the labor, but dresses them in fanciful Turkish attire—a costume often worn by Black men in European art that refers to the legality of slavery in the Ottoman Empire. The Baroque architecture is more characteristic of a large European city from that era than Anglo-Dutch colonial New York, and the actual statue showed the king on horseback. Published in Paris, but based on a print issued slightly before in Augsburg and demonstrates broad European interest in the dramatic events taking place across the Atlantic. It was intended to be shown on a wall or screen using a "magic lantern", an optical device that projected the image by means of candles and mirrors, and often called a "Vue d'Optique.”
Correct-Cricket3355 OP t1_iyel0p8 wrote
Reply to comment by redditing_1L in The Destruction of the Royal Statue in New York - July 9, 1776 by Correct-Cricket3355
There’s a plaque on Bowling Green where it once stood
Correct-Cricket3355 OP t1_iye0dzw wrote
Reply to comment by Flatbush_Zombie in The Destruction of the Royal Statue in New York - July 9, 1776 by Correct-Cricket3355
That’s pretty cool. I have another print of the English Troops Landing in New York
Correct-Cricket3355 OP t1_iydkpei wrote
Reply to comment by TheOneWhoReadsHugo in The Destruction of the Royal Statue in New York - July 9, 1776 by Correct-Cricket3355
BuT hE DoeSn’T HaVe A TAiL!?!
Five days after the Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia, a pro-revolutionary group known as the New York Sons of Liberty tore down a statue of George III standing at Broadway and Bowling Green. This imaginative recreation of that event correctly shows enslaved and free Black men performing most of the labor, but dresses them in fanciful Turkish attire—a costume often worn by Black men in European art that refers to the legality of slavery in the Ottoman Empire. The Baroque architecture is more characteristic of a large European city from that era than Anglo-Dutch colonial New York, and the actual statue showed the king on horseback. Published in Paris, but based on a print issued slightly before in Augsburg and demonstrates broad European interest in the dramatic events taking place across the Atlantic. It was intended to be shown on a wall or screen using a "magic lantern", an optical device that projected the image by means of candles and mirrors, and often called a "Vue d'Optique.
Correct-Cricket3355 OP t1_iydjm85 wrote
Correct-Cricket3355 OP t1_iyd813c wrote
Have this print hanging in my bedroom. Found it at an antique store in Wisconsin.
Submitted by Correct-Cricket3355 t3_z8u22p in nyc
Correct-Cricket3355 t1_ixa8zbw wrote
Expect to miss walking.
Correct-Cricket3355 t1_ivtud43 wrote
Randy! 🤠
Correct-Cricket3355 t1_jb12bck wrote
Reply to comment by Arleare13 in Walmart closing all Portland locations due to high crime. I’m fearful this will be many NYC stores future too as crime and shoplifting explode unchecked by islandersguy109
They obviously do not. I live in NYC and can confirm there is not, and never has been a Walmart here. This is some fear-mongering shit right up here in this montherfucker.