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The allies - par nobile fratrum! / Indignatio fecit., British Cartoon Print

The allies - par nobile fratrum! / Indignatio fecit., British Cartoon Print

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Print shows George III sharing a bone with a Native, he is using the top of a skull as a bowl, two Natives on the left drain blood into a skull from the torso of a white infant; on the right are a corpulent bishop and a sailor who carries boxes of "scalping knives", "crucifixes," and "tomahawks" that are "presents to Indians 96,000."

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5631
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. 764.
Exhibited in: "Creating the United States" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2009-2010.

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01/01/1780
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Almon, John, 1737-1805, publisher
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