The commissioners. [etching]
1778
P&E L2017F129m
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Title
The commissioners. [etching]
Published
[London] : Pubd. ... by M Darly ..., 1778.
Description
1 print ; 21 x 32 cm. on sheet 27 x 33 cm.
Call Number
P&E L2017F129m
System Control No.
(OCoLC)57232385
Note
"Pubd. April 1 1778 ..."
Satirical print mocks the delegation known as the Carlisle Peace Commission, which was sent from Great Britain to try to negotiate a peace agreement with the Americans in 1778; 5 British commissioners appointed in 1778 kneel on the right before the personification of America, an Indian woman seated to the left on barrels and bales, labelled "Tobacco for Germany", "Indico for Spain", "Rice for France," etc.; she wears a feathered headdress, and holds a pole with a liberty cap; each of the commissioners, Admiral Lord Howe, General William Howe, Lord Carlisle, William Eden, and Commodore George Johnstone make supplicatory speeches given in text ribbons above their heads: "We have block'd up your ports, obstructed your trade, with the hope of starving ye, & contrary to the Law of Nations compelled your sons to war against their Bretheren ...," "We have ravaged your lands ...," "We have profaned your places of Divine worship ...," "We have ravish'd, scalped, and murdered your people ...," "For all which material services, we, the Commissioners ... doubt not your cordial duty & affection towards us, or willingness to submit yourselves again to recieve [sic] the same, whenever we have power to bestow it on ye."
In error, it includes the brothers Howe, who in fact refused to join the commission.
Darly published 4 satires on the episode; this is the first of 4 satires, 2nd "The commisioners [sic] interview with congress"; 3rd & 4th rebus letters, "Britannia to America," & "America to her mistaken mother" ((library has all: call nos. P&E L2018F25m; P&E L2009F164; P&E L2009F138m).
Digitized image available, see URL.
Satirical print mocks the delegation known as the Carlisle Peace Commission, which was sent from Great Britain to try to negotiate a peace agreement with the Americans in 1778; 5 British commissioners appointed in 1778 kneel on the right before the personification of America, an Indian woman seated to the left on barrels and bales, labelled "Tobacco for Germany", "Indico for Spain", "Rice for France," etc.; she wears a feathered headdress, and holds a pole with a liberty cap; each of the commissioners, Admiral Lord Howe, General William Howe, Lord Carlisle, William Eden, and Commodore George Johnstone make supplicatory speeches given in text ribbons above their heads: "We have block'd up your ports, obstructed your trade, with the hope of starving ye, & contrary to the Law of Nations compelled your sons to war against their Bretheren ...," "We have ravaged your lands ...," "We have profaned your places of Divine worship ...," "We have ravish'd, scalped, and murdered your people ...," "For all which material services, we, the Commissioners ... doubt not your cordial duty & affection towards us, or willingness to submit yourselves again to recieve [sic] the same, whenever we have power to bestow it on ye."
In error, it includes the brothers Howe, who in fact refused to join the commission.
Darly published 4 satires on the episode; this is the first of 4 satires, 2nd "The commisioners [sic] interview with congress"; 3rd & 4th rebus letters, "Britannia to America," & "America to her mistaken mother" ((library has all: call nos. P&E L2018F25m; P&E L2009F164; P&E L2009F138m).
Digitized image available, see URL.
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