Colonies Reduced,Companion,1767,Britannia,Globe,Olive Branch,New York,Ship

Title: The colonies reduced - its companion
Date Created/Published: [1767]
Summary: Print shows two illustrations on a single sheet, on the top, Britannia is dismembered, her torso leaning against a globe with a banner 'Date Obolum Belli Sario' and her arms and legs, labeled 'Virg-', 'Pennsyl-', 'New York', and 'New Eng-' are scattered on the ground before her, an olive branch has dropped from one hand. Idle ships sit in the harbor in the backgound and a broken tree on the right mimics Britannia. On the bottom, Lord Bute, while stabbing Britannia, lifts her skirt, exposing her buttocks to two men, one with a sword, the other with a cat-o'-nine-tails; a snake strikes at her knees. She has her spear aimed at America, a young Native woman, and has caught hold of her feathered skirt; America flees into the outstretched arms of a Frenchman who has both sword and pistol poised to defend her. Behind the melee a Dutchman makes off with a ship.
Notes:
Design'd & engrav'd for the Political Register.
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4183
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. 632.
Exhibited: 'Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn' at the New York Historical Society, New York, N.Y., 2011-2012.
Subjects:
Bute, John Stuart,--Earl of,--1713-1792.
Britannia (Symbolic character)--1760-1770.
Quadriplegics--England--1760-1770.
Fighting--1760-1770.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1760-1770.
Etchings--British--1760-1770.
Bookmark /2004672618/
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