Thomas Rowlandson - The loss of Eden, - and Eden, lost.
A pun on William Eden, who was asked by Pitt to negotiate the commercial treaty with France, but turned to America instead. He is compared with Benedict Arnold. Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowland... More
York town - A drawing of a group of people on horseback
An emaciated cow representing British commerce grazed on Scottish thistles. Men representing France, Spain, and Holland have just milked the cow. The British lion howls because he has hurt his foot on a broken ... More
The Scotch butchery, Boston, 1775
Print shows Lords Bute and Mansfield conferring, to their right stands Simon Fraser and Lord Wedderburn, "Deputies" to the aforenamed. On the far right are soldiers wearing Highland dress (of the 71st Regiment ... More
The parricide. A sketch of modern patriotism
An Indian maiden, America, directed by Wilkes, stabs a half-clothed Britannia, who is also being attacked by Camden's lion. Cresswell comments that this lacks the humor found in most English cartoons at the tim... More
The allies - par nobile fratrum!
Print shows George III sharing a bone with a Native chief. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
The colonies reduced ; Its companion
Two cartoons. The upper cartoon, "The colonies reduced," shows Britannia seated with arms and legs (labeled Pennsyl, New York, New Eng, and Virg) cut off. The lower cartoon, "Its companion," shows France defend... More
A picturesque view of the state of the nation for February 1778
In the foreground, an American Indian saws off the one remaining horn of a cow representing Britain. A Dutchman milks the cow while a Frenchman and Spaniard await their turns. In the background, the Howe brothe... More
The reconciliation between Britania and her daughter America
An American Indian rushes into the arms of Britannia while a Spaniard and Frenchman try to keep her away. A Dutchman looks on to see who will win the struggle. Catherine the Great had offered to mediate and thi... More
The flight of the Congress - A black and white drawing of animals in a...
General Howe as a lion chasing various American leaders in the guise of other animals -- a donkey in a lion's skin is John Hancock, an armadillo is Washington, a tiger is Laurens. From a liberty tree in the mid... More
The new country dance, as dance at C****. July the 30th, 1766
Satire on George III's court (the king plays the fiddler). Wilkes is carried off by a witch as he relieves himself on Lord Bute. Pitt talks with a half-naked Indian representing America and the devil dances wit... More
De eerste oeconomische plaat. Een jongen ryken Hollander
Concerns the problems of Dutch neutrality amid the warring powers of Europe. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
The thistle reel - Canada, 1775-1783
Bute, Mansfield, and North dance around the vision of a huge thistle while the devil plays the bagpipes in the clouds above. The government's policy toward America is attacked as inspired by Scottish influence,... More
The Premier distributing the loaves and fishes to the labourers in His...
Lord North on stilts supported by Mansfield and Bute distributes spoils like tithes and pensions to an unruly mob of supporters. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
News from America, or the patriots in the dumps
Lord North shows a letter from General Howe, whose victory at Long Island had just recently been announced. A dowdy, bare-breasted woman with a liberty cap falls down weeping and American ships sink in the back... More
Den Engelsman op zyn uiterste = L'Anglois a toute extremitez
An Englishman vomits into a pan while two Americans, Benjamin Franklin and John Paul Jones dressed as an Indian, are about to give the Englishman an enema. Cresswell speculates that this was issued apropos Engl... More
The deplorable state of America or sc--h government
Britannia opens Pandora's Box (the Stamp Act) while Liberty is repressed by a thistle representing Lord Bute, or "Scotch Government." Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Het tegenwoordig verward Europa
England is in danger because her bank is suspended on the horn of a unicorn while infant America, France, and Spain harass him. Only a Dutch skipper helps England. The Netherlands was primarily concerned for it... More
A view of the obelisk erected under Liberty-Tree in Boston on the rejo...
A schematic rendering of the illuminated obelisk erected on Boston Common in celebration of the repeal of the Stamp Act. On each of its four sides is a painted transparency which portrays in allegorical terms o... More
Het tegenwoordig verward Europa
England is in danger because her bank is suspended on the horn of a unicorn while infant America, France, and Spain harass him. Only a Dutch skipper helps England. The Netherlands was primarily concerned for it... More
Eerwardigen Nederlander. De tweede oeconomische plaat
Anti-English cartoon of war years. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
The political raree-show: or a picture of parties and politics, during...
A boy looks into a peep show to see twelve pictures of recent events in the British empire. 1) Lord North borrows money from Jews while Spain declares war on England. 2) The English general Burgoyne kneels to A... More
The bull over-drove: or the drivers in danger
The British bull tramples on the body of Sandwich while simultaneously kicking Lord North and other ministers while threatening an American Indian, a Frenchman, and a Spaniard. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
The state cotillon 1773 - Engraving, Public domain image
Ten men dance to a bagpipe played by Lord Bute at a council meeting. They trample on the national debt, grievance, and other official papers. George III looks on with amusement from behind a door. Courtesy of B... More
The family compact - A drawing of three people dressed in costumes
The devil holds the kings of Spain and France together. This was in reference to the Bourbon Family Compact, whereby Spain joined France against England. The publication line mocks British copyright laws -- "Pu... More
The political cartoon, for the year 1775
Mansfield drives an open coach carrying George III and North toward a cliff. North looks on with approval -- only Chatham and Camden try to stop the coach. Across the waters America burns. Courtesy of Boston Pu... More
A picturesque view of the state of Great Britain for (1778? or 1780?)
In the foreground, an American Indian saws off the one remaining horn of a cow representing Britain. A Dutchman milks the cow while a Frenchman and Spaniard await their turns. In the background, the Howe brothe... More
The political mirror or an exhibition of ministers for April 1782
Old ministers are driven over the cliff into hell by new ministry, including Fox, Burke, and Wilkes. Bute flees on the back of a witch. Dorothy George argues that the attribution "Razo Rezio inv, Crunk Fogo scu... More
![The English lion dismember'd, or the voice of the public for an enquiry into the loss of Minorca--with Adl. B[yn]g’s plea before his examiners](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn27/L3Bob3RvLzE3NTYvMDEvMDEvdGhlLWVuZ2xpc2gtbGlvbi1kaXNtZW1iZXJkLW9yLXRoZS12b2ljZS1vZi10aGUtcHVibGljLWZvci1hbi1lbnF1aXJ5LWludG8tMmNmMTQyLTEwMjQuanBn/40/28/webp "The English lion dismember'd, or the voice of the public for an enquiry into the loss of Minorca--with Adl. B[yn]g’s plea before his examiners")
The English lion dismember'd, or the voice of the public for an enquir...
A lion with one of his paws (labeled Minorca) cut off. Frenchmen consult to one side about cutting more off while the Lord Mayor of London and other English politicians consult on the other. Minorca had been lo... More
Virtual representation, 1775 - A drawing of a group of men in historic...
Bute aims a blunderbuss at an American gentleman with a club while Britannia falls into "the Pit Prepared for Others." In the background, Roman Catholic Quebec sits serenely on the hill while "the English Prote... More
The English lion dismember'd or the voice of the public for an enquiry...
Similar to 1756 cartoon on Minorca. Lord North carries a large sack entitled BUDGET as he drags the British lion on a chain behind him. The lion has lost one of its paws (labeled America) to an American Indian'... More
The house that the rogues built
Public domain reproduction of political cartoon, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Thomas Rowlandson - The rival candidates
Fox is Demosthenes. Lord Hood is Themistocles. Sir Cecil Wray, who betrayed Fox, is Judas Iscariot. Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuri... More
The able doctor, or American swallowing the bitter draught
The fair Indian damsel America held down by Lord Mansfield while Lord North forces tea down her throat. Boston is cannonaded in the background. Published the day after the Boston Port Bill closed Boston's port ... More
The returns of the election - U.S. Presidential Elections
On item: This plate is intended to represent the returns of the presidential election as they will be received in Philadelphia; the different States are represented by balloons; the States of Virginia, N-York &... More
The Whitehall pump - A drawing of a group of people standing around a ...
Lord North pumps water into the mouth of Britannia, nearly drowning her, while her Indian daughter America lies underneath her. The pump head is shaped like George III. Fox smiles on from a window in the backgr... More
The royal hunt, or a prospect of the year 1782
Sandwich and North carouse with courtesans while an American Indian, a Frenchman, a Spaniard and a Dutchman are pulling the pillars out from under the British Empire. This print, attributed to Townshend, was co... More
De wanhoopige Britten, en de vernoegde Americanen, op de tyding van di...
Lord North looks at empty money bags and says, "Ah, had we only dealt more tolerantly with our brothers the Americans, we should not have squandered such countless treasures in a useless war . . ." Courtesy of ... More
The olive rejectd, or the Yankees revenge
Lord North, mounted on an ass and with the "Conciliatary Bill" in his pocket, tries to leap the Atlantic Ocean, but is driven back by Americans brandishing brooms, spoons, and bellows. Most of the legend is in ... More
Amusement for John Bull & his cousin Paddy, or, the gambols of the Ame...
A large basket of loaves and fishes lies upset in the street, probably due to the grinning American buffalo, which looks on. Ministers and would-be ministers scramble for the fallen food. Courtesy of Boston pu... More
The repeal. Or the funeral procession, of Miss Americ-stamp
The Stamp Act is put to rest in a funeral procession on a London quay. George Grenville carries the coffin and Lord Bute follows as chief mourner. This was a very popular print, frequently copied, and this vers... More
Magna Britania her colonies reduc'd.
Britannia seated with arms and legs (labeled Pennsyl, New York, New Eng, and Virg) cut off. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
The present state of Great Britain
John Bull protected by a Scot (Bute) who is holding off a foppish Frenchman with one hand while helping John Bull to hold up a staff with a liberty cap with the other hand. A Dutchman picks john Bull's pocket w... More
"I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest…
Print shows George B. McClellan, in the character of Hamlet, standing near an open grave holding the head of Abraham Lincoln. He soliloquizes, "I knew him, Horatio: A fellow of infinite jest . . . Where be your... More
The bull roasted: or the political cooks serving their customers
George III turns the spit on which the British bull is roasting. He is observed by Bute while North serves portions to an American Indian, a Spaniard, and a Frenchman. Courtesy of Boston Public Library