The able doctor, or, America swallowing the bitter draught
1 print : etching. | Cartoon shows Lord North, with the "Boston Port Bill" extending from a pocket, forcing tea (the Intolerable Acts) down the throat of a partially draped Native female figure representing "America" whose arms are restrained by Lord Mansfield, while Lord Sandwich, a notorious womanizer, restrains her feet and peeks up her skirt. Britannia, standing behind "America", turns away and shields…
Date:1774
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The Whitehall pump
1 print : etching and engraving. | Print shows Lord North pumping water from a water fountain topped with the head of George III onto the prostrate bodies of Britannia and a Native figure representing America. Several ministers and judges look on approvingly, while two raise their arms in protest.
Date:1774-01-01
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The mitred minuet
1 print : engraving. | Print shows four Anglican bishops joining hands and dancing around a copy of the "Quebec Bill" which lies at their feet, on the left, Lord Bute, playing the bagpipes, and Lord North stand with another minister as the Devil hovers above them.
Date:1774
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The Polish plumb-cake
1 print : engraving ; sheet 20.4 x 13.7 cm, on mount 21.1 x 14.3 cm. | Cartoon shows Joseph II and Frederick II with swords drawn, Catherine II holding a cleaver, and Louis XV with a knife, seated around a table on which rests a partitioned cake, representing Poland, each monarch getting a separate, but not equal share; in the background on the…
Contributor:
Lodge, John
Date:1774-01-01
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A political lesson
1 print : mezzotint. | Print shows a rearing black stallion (possibly representing America) which has thrown its rider (possibly representing England). The rider has struck his head on a mile marker "To Boston VI miles" behind which is a signpost pointing the way to Salem. The print may represent colonial resistence to the Boston Port Act which closed the port of Boston and…
Contributor:
Dixon, John
Date:1774
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A new method of macarony making, as practised at Boston
1 print : mezzotint. | Print shows two men with a tarred and feathered customs officer, they are forcing him to drink from a large teapot. The man has a short piece of rope around his neck which may have been attached to the piece of rope hanging from a gibbet in the background. On January 27, 1774, a British customs officer, John Malcolm,…
Date:1774-01-01
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The Bostonian's paying the excise-man, or tarring & feathering
1 print : mezzotint. | Print shows five men forcing a tarred and feathered customs officer to drink from a teapot, a bucket and a liberty cap are on the ground at his feet. They stand beneath the "Liberty Tree" from which a rope with a noose hangs; in the background, shadowy figures on a ship dump tea overboard.
Contributor:
Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm)
Date:1774
Photo, Print, Drawing
The dissolution of P[arliamen]t
1 print : etching and engraving. | Print shows members of Parliament riding in a large carriage past a building commemorating "John Wilkes Esqr."
Date:1774-01-01
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The Parlmt. dissolved, or, the Devil turn'd fortune teller
1 print : etching and engraving. | Print shows Lord North and another minister with the Devil who has conjured a Native male figure, representing America, standing on a prostrate soldier and holding a building, representing Parliament, from which the floor has given way causing the occupants to fall out; the ministers look on in horror.
Date:1774-01-01
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The Bostonians in distress
1 print : mezzotint. | Print shows Bostonians held captive in a cage suspended from the "Liberty Tree." Three British sailors standing in a boat feed them fish from a basket labeled "To -- from the Committee of --" in return for a bundle of papers labeled "Promises"; around the tree and in the background are cannons and British troops. The paper in the…
Contributor:
Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm)
Date:1774-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
The Bostonians in distress
1 print : mezzotint ; plate 35.7 x 23.3 cm on sheet 43.8 x 31.6 cm. | Print shows a re-drawn and reversed image of the famous British political cartoon where Bostonians held captive in a cage are suspended from the "Liberty Tree." Three British sailors standing in a boat feed them fish from a basket labeled "To -- from the Committee of --"…
Date:1774
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The colossus of the North; or the striding Boreas
1 print : etching and engraving. | Print shows Lord North, astride a stream flowing from Westminster Hall, standing on two blocks labeled "Tyranny" and "Venality"; flowing down stream are members of Parliament, at the head of the stream stands John Wilkes, saying "I'll stem the stream", to his right stands Britannia holding a broadside which states "Those that should have been my preservers…
Date:1774-01-01
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Mutual accusation
1 print : engraving. | "Two quack doctors (left) are having a heated altercation in a street or square outside their respective houses..." (Source: George)
Date:1774-01-01
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America in flames
1 print : woodcut. | Print shows a woman representing "America" seated in flames fanned from above by two men in clouds wielding British measures, "Quebec Bill" and "Masachusets (sic) Bay", against the colonies; four British men, representing the British Opposition, make a feeble attempt to extinguish flames. A teapot is overturned on steps in front of "America" spilling it's contents.
Date:1774-01-01
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What is this my son Tom
1 print : mezzotint. | "Honest farmer" with adult son who has large, elaborate hairstyle and stylish clothes.
Photo, Print, DrawingThe able doctor, or, America swallowing the bitter draught 1 print : etching. | Cartoon shows Lord North, with the "Boston Port Bill" extending from a pocket, forcing tea (the Intolerable Acts) down the throat of a partially draped Native female figure representing "America" whose arms are restrained by Lord Mansfield, while Lord Sandwich, a notorious womanizer, restrains her feet and peeks up her skirt. Britannia, standing behind "America", turns away and shields…
Photo, Print, DrawingThe Whitehall pump 1 print : etching and engraving. | Print shows Lord North pumping water from a water fountain topped with the head of George III onto the prostrate bodies of Britannia and a Native figure representing America. Several ministers and judges look on approvingly, while two raise their arms in protest.
Photo, Print, DrawingThe mitred minuet 1 print : engraving. | Print shows four Anglican bishops joining hands and dancing around a copy of the "Quebec Bill" which lies at their feet, on the left, Lord Bute, playing the bagpipes, and Lord North stand with another minister as the Devil hovers above them.
Photo, Print, DrawingThe Polish plumb-cake 1 print : engraving ; sheet 20.4 x 13.7 cm, on mount 21.1 x 14.3 cm. | Cartoon shows Joseph II and Frederick II with swords drawn, Catherine II holding a cleaver, and Louis XV with a knife, seated around a table on which rests a partitioned cake, representing Poland, each monarch getting a separate, but not equal share; in the background on the…
Photo, Print, DrawingA political lesson 1 print : mezzotint. | Print shows a rearing black stallion (possibly representing America) which has thrown its rider (possibly representing England). The rider has struck his head on a mile marker "To Boston VI miles" behind which is a signpost pointing the way to Salem. The print may represent colonial resistence to the Boston Port Act which closed the port of Boston and…
Photo, Print, DrawingA new method of macarony making, as practised at Boston 1 print : mezzotint. | Print shows two men with a tarred and feathered customs officer, they are forcing him to drink from a large teapot. The man has a short piece of rope around his neck which may have been attached to the piece of rope hanging from a gibbet in the background. On January 27, 1774, a British customs officer, John Malcolm,…
Photo, Print, DrawingThe Bostonian's paying the excise-man, or tarring & feathering 1 print : mezzotint. | Print shows five men forcing a tarred and feathered customs officer to drink from a teapot, a bucket and a liberty cap are on the ground at his feet. They stand beneath the "Liberty Tree" from which a rope with a noose hangs; in the background, shadowy figures on a ship dump tea overboard.
Photo, Print, DrawingThe dissolution of P[arliamen]t 1 print : etching and engraving. | Print shows members of Parliament riding in a large carriage past a building commemorating "John Wilkes Esqr."
Photo, Print, DrawingThe Parlmt. dissolved, or, the Devil turn'd fortune teller 1 print : etching and engraving. | Print shows Lord North and another minister with the Devil who has conjured a Native male figure, representing America, standing on a prostrate soldier and holding a building, representing Parliament, from which the floor has given way causing the occupants to fall out; the ministers look on in horror.
Photo, Print, DrawingThe Bostonians in distress 1 print : mezzotint. | Print shows Bostonians held captive in a cage suspended from the "Liberty Tree." Three British sailors standing in a boat feed them fish from a basket labeled "To -- from the Committee of --" in return for a bundle of papers labeled "Promises"; around the tree and in the background are cannons and British troops. The paper in the…
Photo, Print, DrawingThe Bostonians in distress 1 print : mezzotint ; plate 35.7 x 23.3 cm on sheet 43.8 x 31.6 cm. | Print shows a re-drawn and reversed image of the famous British political cartoon where Bostonians held captive in a cage are suspended from the "Liberty Tree." Three British sailors standing in a boat feed them fish from a basket labeled "To -- from the Committee of --"…
Photo, Print, DrawingThe colossus of the North; or the striding Boreas 1 print : etching and engraving. | Print shows Lord North, astride a stream flowing from Westminster Hall, standing on two blocks labeled "Tyranny" and "Venality"; flowing down stream are members of Parliament, at the head of the stream stands John Wilkes, saying "I'll stem the stream", to his right stands Britannia holding a broadside which states "Those that should have been my preservers…
Photo, Print, DrawingMutual accusation 1 print : engraving. | "Two quack doctors (left) are having a heated altercation in a street or square outside their respective houses..." (Source: George)
Photo, Print, DrawingAmerica in flames 1 print : woodcut. | Print shows a woman representing "America" seated in flames fanned from above by two men in clouds wielding British measures, "Quebec Bill" and "Masachusets (sic) Bay", against the colonies; four British men, representing the British Opposition, make a feeble attempt to extinguish flames. A teapot is overturned on steps in front of "America" spilling it's contents.
Photo, Print, DrawingWhat is this my son Tom 1 print : mezzotint. | "Honest farmer" with adult son who has large, elaborate hairstyle and stylish clothes.