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The colossus of the North; or the striding Boreas, British Cartoon Print

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The colossus of the North; or the striding Boreas, British Cartoon Print

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Print shows Lord North, astride a stream flowing from Westminster Hall, standing on two blocks labeled "Tyranny" and "Venality"; flowing down stream are members of Parliament, at the head of the stream stands John Wilkes, saying "I'll stem the stream", to his right stands Britannia holding a broadside which states "Those that should have been my preservers have been my destroyers".

Includes accompanying text "A vision" mounted below print.
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5242
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. 675.

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01/01/1774
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Old England
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