News from America, or the patriots in the dumps [engraving]

News from America, or the patriots in the dumps [engraving]

The London magazine

London London Magazine Nov. 1776

1 print ; on sheet 19 x 13 cm.

P&E L1991.1.111m

Satirical print. Gen. North and Mansfield show a letter from the victorious General Howe. To the right, Bute, George III, Sandwich, and probably Germain are pleased, while a group of commoners, on the left, led by Wilkes, scowl. A tawdry, bare-breasted woman with a liberty cap on a staff falls down weeping. Published in London, it reflects how the British loyalists in London celebrated General Howe's victory at Long Island while American sympathizers, including a forlorn woman holding her liberty cap, express distress.
Above the engraving, on the upper right "Lond. Mag. Nov. 1776."
BM 5340.
Exhibited at Anderson House in a display of satirical prints, caricatures, and political incorrectness in the age of reason, May 14 - September 30, 2002. Stored as matted.
Digitized image available, see URL

Cresswell, Donald H. The American revolution in drawings and prints, 703.
Dolmetsch, Joan D. Rebellion and reconciliation, 38

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