A petitioning,remonstrating,reforming,republican,1782,Liberty Cap,Cartoon

Title: A petitioning, remonstrating, reforming, republican / R.S.
Date Created/Published: 1782 May 8.
Summary: Cartoon shows a 'Republican' squatting over an upturned crown, urinating into an upturned bishop's mitre. He supports himself with a staff on which is a liberty cap with the word 'liberty' crossed out and 'rebellion' written underneath. A doggrel 'Your petitioner sheweth' is written underneath the image.
Notes:
LC copy, dated 1782, lacks publication information cited in British Museum Catalog.
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5665 (later issue)
Subjects:
Urination--1780-1790.
Liberty cap--1780-1790.
Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1780-1790.
Etchings--Hand-colored--1780-1790.
Bookmark /00652675/
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