York town, British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon

Cartoon shows "America" receiving the surrender of Cornwallis in the background, while an emaciated cow representing "English commerce" is robbed of her milk by France, Spain, and Holland in the left foreground, on the right a frock-coated Englishman begs, as does the British lion, whose paw has been injured by a broken teapot.

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5859
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. 802.
Exhibited in: "Creating the U.S." Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2008.