The olive rejectd or the Yankees revenge, British Cartoon Print
Summary
Print shows a representative of the British crown in America for peace negotiations (identified in the text as Edmund Burke, though possibly Lord North), he is wearing a crown with olive branch on his head and carries a "Conciatory Bill" in a pocket. He is riding a donkey and is being driven from the American shores by several men, one wearing a feathered headdress. The figures are numbered and a corresponding legend, in French, appears below title inscription.
Caption continues: Le Lord Burthe Couronné sur un ane infortunéz Anglois, a quoi vos bills conciliatoire ont-ils servis?
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, p. 289
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. 732.
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