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Allegorical prints of England and Ireland, personified by women wearing drapery and symbolic headpieces. England is a woman dressed in a white toga with a gold-trimmed red drape, holding a staff and Union Jack shield. At her feet kneel small boys of various ethnicities representing the colonies of the British Empire, then at the height of its power. Behind her is a lion with a shield and awestruck native men in a dark cloud, holding aloft a torch. The allegorical print of Ireland is set in a waterside garden decorated with classical statuary. A seated woman in white draped with red, representing England, grasps the hand of Ireland, a standing woman in a yellow dress, chest armor and a helmet. A reclining lion gazes out of the picture from the lower right corner, and an arrangement of fruits, symbolic of prosperity, rests on the ground at the women's feet. Beside Ireland, on a stone pediment, rests a crown, sceptre, and rolled document.

Richard Corbould was a versatile artist producing landscapes, genre and historical subjects, which he exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, from 1777 to 1811, as well as book illustrations. He was the progenitor of a family that produced four generations of painters and illustrators from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Corbould had a long association with the book publisher C. Cooke, illustrating Daniel Defoe's The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1790) among many others. His works are in the collection of the Tate Gallery and the Guildhall Library and Art Gallery, both in London.

James Chapman was an engraver in London who produced plates between 1792 and 1823, mostly in a dotted manner, including some printed in color. He produced a series of allegorical plates after Richard Corbould and J. Smith (Mackenzie).

References:

"Corbould." The Grove Dictionary of Art. New York: Macmillan. 2000. Online at Artnet.com. http://www.artnet.com/library/01/0194/T019427.asp (27 March 2003).

Mackenzie, Ian. British Prints: Dictionary and Price Guide. Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: Antique Collectors Club, 1987. p. 77.

Maxted, Ian. "The London book trades 1775-1800: a preliminary checklist of members." Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History. U.K.: Devon Library and Information Services. 20 June 2001. http://www.devon.gov.uk/library/locstudy/bookhist/lonc.html and http://www.devon.gov.uk/library/locstudy/bookhist/lonw.html (27 March 2003).