News from America, or the Patriots in the dumps, British Cartoon Print
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Cartoon shows Lord North standing on a platform holding letter announcing successful campaign by British troops in America. A distraught woman "America" holding a liberty cap, sits at the base of the platform; others present react to the news.
Illus. from: London magazine, v. 45 (1776 Nov.), p. 599.
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5340
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. 703.
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