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America in flames
Description
English: America, as "a venerable lady" sits on the topmost of three steps, surrounded by flames. Above her head from among clouds two figures blow at the fire with bellows: Bute (l.), in Highland dress, plies bellows inscribed "Quebec Bill"; and in the centre Mansfield, in wig and gown, plies bellows inscribed "Masachusets Bay". On his left. sits the Devil (r.), an imp with horns, claws, and bat's wings. Beside America (r.) stands Lord North in profile looking at her through a lorgnette; in his left hand he holds the "Boston Port Bill". Below four patriots are attempting to put out the flames, one with a bucket of water, two with syringes. Down the steps in front rolls a tea-pot spilling its contents. 1 January 1775
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Depicted people Representation of: William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Date 1775
date QS:P571,+1775-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 146 millimetres
Width: 92 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.10067
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) >From the 'Town and Country Magazine', vi. 659. The text explains the patriots as "well-known faces . . . often seen in and near the Mansion House and among the members of the society of the Bill of Rights". Wilkes is indicated by his squint, the man with the bucket has some resemblance to Parson Horne, the others are too rudely drawn for identification. North is "the ostensible agent of the trio" in the clouds. The tea-pot is a symbol of the Boston tea-party which had caused the measures here pilloried (except the Quebec Act): the withdrawal of the charter of Massachusetts and the Boston Port Bill, see BMSat 5226, 5227, 5228, 5236, 5285. For other references to the tax on tea and its consequences see BMSat 5226, 5490, 5491, 6190. For Bute as the chief instigator of measures against the Colonies see BMSat 5289, &c. For the Quebec Act see BMSat 5228, &c.

This woodcut was used in the 'Hibernian Magazine', Jan. 1775 [1 Feb. 1775].
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-10067
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