Detail View: JCB Political Cartoons: [Britain, America, at length be friends]

Accession number: 
31571
Title: 
[Britain, America, at length be friends]
Place: 
[London]
Date: 
[1774]
Image technique: 
Etching
Image dimensions: 
15.1 x 10.9 cm.
Narrative description: 
Urges friendly settlement of differences. Images include: America, as an Indian with gorget and headdress; Britain as a lion; Britannia; Commerce (British); Concord, as a woman; Peace as a bubble.
References: 
Not in BM. Cresswell, American Revolution, 662
Notes: 
From: The London Magazine, (January, 1774), frontispiece. At upper center, "Frontispiece." At upper right, "Lon. Mag. 1774." Includes poetry. Title from first line of 10-line verse below image.
Subject: 
North Administration (January 1770-March 1782). Tension between Britain and the American colonies.
Normalized date: 
1774