The state nurses. Book illustration from Library of Congress, British Cartoon Print

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The state nurses. Book illustration from Library of Congress, British Cartoon Print

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Print shows the Earl of Mansfield, seated, and the Earl of Sandwich keeping watch over the British lion asleep in a cradle around which are four barking dogs labeled "Holland", "America" who is urinating on a paper labeled "Tea Act", "France", and "Spain"; in the background, on the left, Gibraltar is under siege by the Spanish, and on the right, men (possibly George III) and dogs are hunting for stag.

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5850
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. 792.

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01/01/1781
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Colley, Thomas, active 1780-1783, publisher
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Library of Congress
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