Loon na werk 1780, British Cartoon Print

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Loon na werk 1780, British Cartoon Print

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Print shows a large dog (representing England) muzzled and chained being attacked by several men (representing the countries of the armed neutrality league and the allies, a Swede, a Dane, a Frenchman with an umbrella, a Spaniard with a cane, a Dutchman holds the dog by the tail, an American (at far right with a single feather in his hat) and one woman (Catherine the Great of Russia holding a caduceus and a sword); in the background, a woman, labeled "Queen of the Sea," stripped to the waist, wearing a crown, and hanging by her wrists from a gallows is being whipped by "J: poül Jones." Includes legend to numbered figures.

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5715
Purchase; (DLC/PP-1971:192)
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. 778.

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1600 - 1700
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