Category:American revolution cow commerce cartoon (1781)

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State of the English Nation in Year 1781

Abstract: Cartoon shows in the left foreground an emaciated cow with broken horns representing "English commerce" grazes on Scottish thistles, while men representing France, Spain, and Holland have just milked and robbed it. The plinth beside them is inscribed Mexico, Peru, and Chile.

In the right foreground a frock-coated Englishman prays, a lamb is at his knee. Rats waste money. The British lion howls because he has hurt his foot on a broken teapot.

In the background is a symbolic surrender at Yorktown (showing "America" receiving the symbolic surrender of Cornwallis) three Englishmen and a Scotsman humbly approach an American Indian on a throne surrounded by Justice, Mars, and Hercules); beside them are barrels of wine from Cadiz, Marseilles, and Nantes. Out at sea, is a French fleet, with Howe's flagship, "Eagle," sinking.


Physical description: 1 print : etching ; 21.3 x 28.5 cm. (plate), 23.1 x 30 cm. (sheet)

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