Cartoon on the English losses in the fight with America (2), 1778, anonymous, 1778 Canvas Print
Second cartoon on the English losses in the battle with America in 1778. The English commercial industry depicted by a skim dairy cow whose horns the US Congress has sawn off is now grazing into the thistles. Herewith a Dutchman with a bucket of milk, a Frenchman with a bowl and a Spaniard also with a bowl, leaning on a pedestal referred to as Mexico, Peru and Chile. In the middle, rats gnaw the empty British treasury, the Englishman prays and the British lion roars for his injury to a broken teapot (a reference to the Boston Tea Party of 1773). In the background, British envoys visit original Americans (represented as a group of men with feather headdresses) with Justice on the left and Power, Hercules and Prudence on the right. To the left of the Americans three tons with placeholder: Marseille, Nantes and Cadix. Behind it Yorktown (possibly this refers to the English defeat under Cornwallis against the Americans and French at Yorktown, Sept-Oct 1781). In the water off the coast the sunken wreck of the English ship the Eagle, captured by the Americans September 17, 1778. Marked bottom left: No. 2. The print is accompanied by a text sheet with an explanation of the performance.
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