The colonies reduced - its companion, British Cartoon Print

Print shows two illustrations on a single sheet, on the top, Britannia, as the Roman general Belisarius, is dismembered, her torso leaning against a globe with a banner "Date Obolum Belli Sario" (give a penny for Bellisarius) and her arms and legs, labeled "Virg-", "Pennsyl-", "New York", and "New Eng-" are scattered on the ground before her, an olive branch has dropped from one hand. Idle ships sit in the harbor in the backgound and a broken tree on the right mimics Britannia. The scene emphasizes America's poverty as a result of the Stamp Act. On the bottom, Lord Bute, while stabbing Britannia, lifts her skirt, exposing her buttocks to two men, one with a sword, the other with a cat-o'-nine-tails; a snake strikes at her knees. She has her spear aimed at America, a young Native woman, and has caught hold of her feathered skirt; America flees into the outstretched arms of a Frenchman who has both sword and pistol poised to defend her. Behind the melee a Dutchman makes off with a ship. The cartoonist blames the British government policies for alienating the American colonies.

Design'd & engrav'd for the Political Register.
The top half of the cartoon satirizes a cartoon that Benjamin Franklin distributed around London while he was Pennsylvania's colonial agent.
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4183
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. 632.
Published in: Rebellion and reconciliation : satirical prints on the Revolution at Williamsburg : [catalog] / by Joan D. Dolmetsch. Williamsburg, Va. : Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ; Charlottesville : distributed by University Press of Virginia, c1976, no. 15.
Exhibited: "Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn" at the New York Historical Society, New York, N.Y., 2011-2012.
Exhibited: "Versailles and the American Revolution" at the Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles, Versailles, France, July - October 2016.