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The English lion dismember'd or the voice of the public for an enquiry into public expenditure, British Cartoon Print

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The English lion dismember'd or the voice of the public for an enquiry into public expenditure, British Cartoon Print

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Print shows, on the left, Lord North carrying a large sack labeled "Budget" over his shoulder, tethered to the sack by chain is a lion from which America (represented by a Native man wearing feathered headdress and skirt, holding in his right hand a staff topped with a liberty cap and in his left hand a tomahawk) has cut off a paw, to the right, behind the lion, are standing a Frenchman and a Spaniard, approaching from the far right are three men, members of "Associations" who demand an accounting of expenditures from Lord North.

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5649
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. 767.

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01/01/1780
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