The poor blacks going to their settlement, British Cartoon Print
Summary
Print shows the Prince of Wales and several British ministers (Burke, Fox, North, George Hanger, and possibly Sheridan) portrayed as poor Blacks, shabbily dressed and being driven toward debtor's prison depicted as "Brookes Rectifier of Spirits" by Edward Thurlow with raised stick.
Attributed to William Dent, BM CPPS no. 7127.
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7127
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. 886.
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