• By the Honourable George Thomas, Esq; lieutenant governor and commander in chief of the province of Pennsylvania

Publisher:

• [Philadelphia : [Benjamin Franklin], 1744/06/11.

Extent:

• 1 item ; sheet 44.7 x 39 cm.

Format:

• Visual material

Description:

• Unidentified Artist [printer]
• Medium: Engravings, Letterpress printing
• Item description: Call to bear arms in response to declaration of war against France.
• Unsigned.

Subject:

• Great Britain—History, Military—18th century—In art
• Broadsides—Great Britain—18th century—Specimens
• Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748—In art
• Philadelphia (Pa.)—History, Military—18th century—ina rt.
• Pennsylvania—History, Military—18th century—ina rt.
• Broadsides—Pennsylvania—Philadelphia—1744
• Printed ephemera—Great Britain—18th century—Specimens
• Ephemera—18th century

Edm rights:

• Copyright Not Evaluated

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99106396273506421

Curator's notes:

• English
  Philadelphia, 1744, paper

  Benjamin Franklin became the official printer of Pennsylvania in 1730 (and of New Jersey in 1740), producing paper currency and proclamations such as this call to arms in response to the British declaration of war against France. Single-sheet, often oversize printed notices or advertisements are known as broadsides, and these would have been publicly posted or distributed to communicate information.

  Gift of Sinclair Hamilton, Class of 1906
  Graphic Arts, GA 2012.02794

  For further reading

  Miller, C. William. Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia printing, 1728-1766: a descriptive bibliography. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1974.

Exhibit category:

• Commonalities
• Commonalities: Announcements