A Victorian reprint of Gillray’s famous caricature map of England

A comical map of England as a elderly Britannia seated on the back of a scaly sea monster, with a dove sitting on the back of her hand. All the named features are coastal; inland, not even London is marked. The map was drawn and etched by James Gillray (1756-1815), and first published in 1791 by Hannah Humphrey (1750-1818), Gillray's publisher, landlady and perhaps life partner. Shortly after her death her stock of copper printing plates were sold: despite Gillray being the most influential caricaturists of his time, the plates were valued only as scrap metal and dispersed. However London publisher managed to gather a large number of the plates, eventually publishing 582 in ''The Works of James Gillray from the Original Plates' in 1852.