The European diligence. Book illustration from Library of Congress, British Cartoon Print

Print shows a Dutchman rolling a wheelbarrow over Britannia; along for the ride are France represented by a man leaning over the front of the wheelbarrow with a sword ready to stab Britannia, America represented by a woman with feathered headdress who says to the Frenchman, "My good & great ally strike home", a figure wearing a cloak and hat, probably representing Spain, and a fourth figure who speaks to the figure in the cloak, "Now Brother of Portugal join the confaderacy and agrandize our family." Standing behind the prostrate Britannia is a large, imposing Russian soldier holding rifle with fixed bayonet intent on stopping the forward progress of nations conducting business with America.

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5557
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. 750.