A view in America in 1778 / MD sc., British Cartoon Print

Print shows an African man lying on the ground, wounded by cannon shot, over him are standing several men, on the left is a congressman clearly suffering from a visual disorder (strabismus or walleye and also, perhaps, blindness to the needs of the military), center is a military officer gesturing with his tricornered hat to the wounded soldier while looking at the congressman. On the right is a well dressed soldier mocking three disgruntled, ragged soldiers. In the background is a fenced area labeled "US", on a hill above is a fort, presumably British, from which a soldier fires cannons upon the enclosure from which soldiers are apparently retreating toward a palisade.

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5482
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. 734.
Exhibited: "Redcoat & Revolution: Richard St. George in America and Ireland" at the Museum of the American Revolution, 101 S. Third Street, Philadelphia, Pa, September 26, 2019 - February 17, 2020.