The able doctor, or, America swallowing the bitter draught, British Cartoon Print
Summary
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 her face with her left hand.
Illus. from: London magazine, v. 43 (1774 May), p. 184.
Another copy in: The Royal American magazine, ... Boston : Printed by and for I. Thomas, Vol. I, No. X, (1774 June).
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5226
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 664.
Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States / edited by Sheridan Harvey ... [et al.]. Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 182.
Exhibited: "Steeped in History : The Art of Tea" at the Fowler Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, 2009.
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