Lord Frederick North,Budget,Enquiry,Public Expenditure,1780,Lions,Revolution
Title: The English lion dismember'd or the voice of the public for an enquiry into public expenditure
Date Created/Published: [London] : Pub by E. Hedges No. 2, Under the Royal Exchange Cornhill, 1780 March 12th.
Summary: Print shows, on the left, Lord North carrying a large sack labeled 'Budget' over his shoulder, tethered to the sack by chain is a lion from which America (represented by a Native man wearing feathered headdress and skirt, holding in his right hand a staff topped with a liberty cap and in his left hand a tomahawk) has cut off a paw, to the right, behind the lion, are standing a Frenchman and a Spaniard, approaching from the far right are three men, members of 'Associations' who demand an accounting of expenditures from Lord North.
Notes:
Title from item.
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5649
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. 767.
Subjects:
North, Frederick,--Lord,--1732-1792.
Lions--1780.
Government spending policy--England--1780.
Economic aspects of war--England--1780.
Public opinion--England--1780.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1780.
Engravings--British--1780.
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