Englisch printet. Book illustration from Library of Congress, British Cartoon Print

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Englisch printet. Book illustration from Library of Congress, British Cartoon Print

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Print shows eight men wearing legal or clerical bands sitting at a long table, in front of which is a procession of animals; on the right is a donkey throwing its rider, followed by a unicorn ridden by a cock, behind it a goat ridden by a man facing its tail, and last is a lion, smaller than the goat, pulling a small cart driven by a man. In the upper right background are French sailors dancing to a tune played on the fiddle by a man (representing America) wearing a feathered headdress. The figures are numbered and a corresponding legend is printed in Dutch below the illustration.

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5839
Purchase; Van Gendt &Co. (DLC/PP-1971:194).
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. 789.

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01/01/1781
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