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Allegory depicting the death of liberty in Europe and its new home in America; a temple, lettered "Libert. Americ.", stands on a distant shore beyond which stretches a fertile landscape; in the foreground, to left, Father Time casts flowers on the remnants of Athens, Rome and Florence, while on the right, a figure representing British liberty lies on a tomb mourned by seventeenth-century republicans Algernon Sidney, Milton, Andrew Marvell, and John Locke, and Barry himself; a man with shackled ankles stands in front of the tomb with a tattered copy of Habeas Corpus protruding from his coat. 1776 Etching and aquatint in brown ink
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