COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Political Cartoons
Record
Accession number:
31559
Title:
The TEA-TAX-TEMPEST, or OLD TIME with his MAGICK=LANTHERN.
Place:
[London]
Publisher:
Pubd. ... by W. Humphrieys, No, 27 Strand.
Date:
1783. March 12.
Image technique:
Engraving, colored
Image dimensions:
22.7 x 32.7 cm. (image).
Narrative description:
Boston Tea Party. Europe, Africa, America, and Asia watch images of the Revolution projected by Father Time with a magic lantern. An teapot in flames fanned by a cock symbolizing France Images include: Africa as a woman; America as an Indian; Asia as a woman; Britain as a prostrate lion; Europe as a woman; the American rattlesnake flag; France as a cock; Holland as a lion with arrows; liberty cap; American soldiers.
References:
BM 6190
Notes:
Imprint trimmed. JCB copy 2 is uncolored (accession # 31558).
Subject:
American Revolution
Normalized date:
1783
The TEA-TAX-TEMPEST, or OLD TIME with his MAGICK=LANTHERN.
