BM 4140
The Repeal, “Or the Funeral of the Miss Americ-Stamp”.
[1766]; s.n., (30 x 43.5 cm)

Engraving featuring an exterior scene on the bank of the Thames River in London. A procession of men, many of them visibly in signs of mourning and some with handkerchiefs, follow a small coffin towards an open tomb to the left. In the lead is a man reading from a sermon. In the front are two mounted skulls on sticks reading “1715” and “1745”; a dog is urinating on the minister in the front of the line. In the background are warehouses labeled “Sheffield and Birmingham Warehouse Goods Now Ship’d for America” three boats labeled “Conway” “Rockingham” and “Grafton” are in the river. Also included in the folder is a broadside “An Account of a humourous Political Print, called, The Repeal; which (in the Painters Phrase) may be called, A Companion to the Tomb-Stone, a Print not long since published.” Note: AAS also has two facsimile copies of the engraving.

BM 4158
The Savage Man.
[1766]; s.n., (25.5 x 38.5 cm)

Etching featuring an image of Jean Jacques Rousseau as identified by CPDBM; he is a primitive man with a leaf belt covering his genitals holding a club and pouring coins from his hand to a man identified as David Hume who has a large basket. Two doctors are in the background with several monkeys stating “The Inequality of Mankind”. On the other side is Voltaire carrying a cane whipping Rousseau with a handkerchief; another unidentified man stands to the far right.

BM 4162
Common-wealth; The Colossus.
[1766]; publisher information identified by CPDBM as Sold by T. Ewart in the Strand., (21.5 x 29 cm)

Etching identified by CPDBM as W. Pitt labeled as “The Colossus” on stilts which are each labeled “Sedition” “Pension” and “Popularity”. Beneath him are buildings in New York, the Royal Exchange and St. Stephen’s Chapel; to the right is a domed building with a person blowing bubbles which fall beneath Pitt. To the left is a scroll with text and labeled “Doodle Noodle”.

BM 4172a
Stationers Almanack; For the Year MDCCLXVI.
[1766?]; s.n., (29.5 x 48 cm)

BM 4183
The Colonies Reduced. Its Companion.
[1767]; Designed & Engraved for the Political Register, (11.5 x 20.5 cm)

Engraving in two distinct scenes; the one on top features a woman, Britannia, seated before a globe; in the distance are ships and to the right a dead tree. Britannia has had her limbs removed and they are scattered around her labeled “Virg” “Pennsyl” “New York” and “New England”. The image below is of a crowd of men; one man pulls a ship above his head and attempts to walk through the crowd. Another man, Lord Bute, is seen lifting up the skirt of Britannia exposing her to Spain and an additional unknown man. America, who looks like a Native, is running into the arms of a Frenchman. There is also a snake coiled to the left.

BM 4183a
La Grande Bretagne motile; Das verstunelte Britanien.
[1767-8?]; Amsterdam, (25.5 x 35.5 cm)

Etching featuring an exterior scene of naked Britannia at the foot of a large rock; she is chained to it. She has been dismembered with her arms and legs around her labeled “New England” “Philadelphia” “Halifax” and “Boston”; a sash is labeled “Date Obolum Belisario”; to the right is a shield and in the background a harbor with several masts. To the left is a man chained to a barrel in the shadows. Text beneath is in Dutch and French.

BM 4205a [see Folio]

BM 4227a
An Attempt to land a Bishop in America.
[1768]; Design’d & Engrav’d for the Political Register, (20.5 x 12 cm)

Engraving taken from a periodical which features an exterior scene on the docks with a ship labeled “The Hilsborough”; a bishop is seen on the mast of the ship. Beneath him to the left are colonists pushing the ship away. A Quaker in the foreground points to a copy of Barclay’s Apology. Also being thrown are “Sydney on Government” “Locke” and “Calvin’s Works”. One of the flags is labeled “Liberty and Freedom of Conscience”. In the foreground is a monkey. AAS copy is a variant of BM 4227 as it is smaller in size.

BM 4229
The North Star.
[1768]; s.n., (17.5 x 21.5 cm)

Engraving with the Lord Bute elevated in the air standing on a copy of the Laws of England; behind him to the left is a man playing the fiddle with a peg-leg and to the right a Scotsman playing the bagpipe standing on the “Bank of England”. A crowd of men beneath includes the Lord Chief Justice standing on a copy of the “Liberty of the Press” at the “Altar of Baal” holding the “Rights of the Subject” over “Habeas Corpus”. There are numerous subjects kneeling before the scene. Also featured are the Duke of Grafton and the Earl of Chatham and the other justices. To the far left is an image of fallen Britannia and a man ready to slay her with a sword.

BM 4264a
Avaunt ye troublers of a World’s repose.
[1768]; frontispiece in London Magazine Vol. XXXVII, (20 x 12.5 cm)

Engraving which features three figures to the right and a young boy kneeling to the left. In the image is a standing Britannia with shield and sword and a weeping female figure; behind her is King George pointing downward with a scepter. They are standing atop two maps, one of Corsica and one of North America. To the left is a columned structure and in the background masts and sails of a large ship. Text beneath starts “Avaunt ye troublers of a World’s repose”.

BM 4268a
Hieroglyphics.
[1769]; CPDBM identifies publisher as “For the Oxford Magazine”, (10.5 x 16 cm)

Engraving featuring John Wilkes in the center being attacked by two dogs with the heads of Sir Fletcher Norton and the Duke of Grafton. To the right are other half man half animal figures who CPDBM identifies as Lord Holland and the Duke of Bedford and Lord Mansfield. To the left are two men in robes including the Lord Chief justice. Note: AAS image is clipped from a periodical and mounted onto a separate sheet of paper; it is similar to BM 4268.

BM 4296
The City Carriers.
[1769]; s.n., (11 x 19 cm)

Engraving featuring the exterior of St. James’s Palace which is labeled “The Gate of Red dress”; to the left is a crowd gathered around an effigy holding two documents “Pensions” and “Contracts”; in the front is a naked figure of truth on a mule; to the right is the figure of Liberty talking to the king. To the right is a soldier talking to the Lord Holland pointing to a fools cap labeled “It fits exactly”. Note: AAS copy is mounted on a separate sheet of paper.

BM 4300
The ever-memorable Peace-Makers settling their Accounts.
[1769]; s.n., (20.5 x 26 cm)

BM 4318
The Machine to go without Asses.
[1769]; Designed & Engrav’d for the Political Register, (12.5 x 20.5 cm)

Engraving featuring a carriage named Magna Charta with four wheels labeled “America” “Ireland” “Great Britain” and “India”; the wheels are rolling over the bodies of four men. This public carriage is being driven by the King using, instead of reins, the “rights of my people”; to the right is an angel with a laurel wreath. Sitting next to the king is Liberty with a cap. Behind are three men labeled “The Family Compact”. 

BM 4422 [see Folio]

BM 4766
Recruits.
[1770]; W.H. Bunbury delin. Watson & Dickinson Exudt, (28.5 x 26.5 cm)

Stipple engraving featuring an exterior scene in front of a building; protruding from the tavern is a sign which reads “The Old Fortune”; on the sign is an image of a soldier missing an arm, leg and eye but he is smiling with a  beer in his hand. Lined up in front of the sign are three men and a recruiting sergeant. To the left is an additional officer; a bystander grins at the scene and a woman is seated in the foreground with a basket.

BM 4864
Britannia Congratulating the Right Hon. Brass Crosby, Esq.; Lord-Mayor, and Mr. Alderman Oliver on their Releasement from the Tower, at the Rising of the Parliament, May 8, 1771.
[1771]; Holman Del Publish’d 15th June, 1771. Bland Sculp. Sold by s. Hooper, No. 25, Ludgate-Hill. Price One Shilling, (39 x 27 cm)

Engraving with a text broadside beneath. The image features Britannia with a shield and spear her arms outstretched towards Crosby and Oliver as identified by CPDBM; behind her are several magistrates and the buildings of the Tower of London. The men hold out copies of the Magna Charta as well as the City Charter. Text beneath starts “Joy to my Sons and Patriots! – high in fame…"

BM 4907a
The Children of Liberty.
[1771]; Publish’d as the Act Directs, by S. Hooper, No. 25, Ludgate-hill, 1 Septr 1771, (26 x 35.5 cm)

Mezzotint featuring an interior scene with a woman, laid up on a bed, being handed a cup of steaming soup by a man. To the left a man in clerical robes reads from a book, likely the Bible, while a large woman holds two babes in her hands. In the front is a man and woman holding a book entitled “The History of England by Mrs. Maccauly”; brushing her hand is a man in uniform with a bronze shield. Hanging on the wall is a uniform with a tri-corner hat and a Maltese Cross.

BM 5105
The Mother and the Child.
[1773]; CPDBM indicates image was published for the London Magazine, (21 x 13 cm)

Engraving featuring an exhausted looking Britannia seated with a child on her lap; to the right is a shield and spear. The child is asking for “More Supplies”; on the top are two images of money bags. One is full and is labeled “Privy Purse in 1753 GR II” and the other one, completely empty, is “Privy Purse in 1778 “GR III”.

BM 5109
The State Jugglers 1773.
[1773]; CPDBM indicates image was published for the Westminster Magazine, (20 x 12 cm)

Engraving featuring a scene at a large table with Lord North in the center on the top. On the table are three large money-bags in the area of North’s genital region. There is also an African slave bearing a box, Lord Fox and several other prominent figures. Beneath is a scene with numerous men, a woman with a baby and a serpent on a table. There is also a pair of trousers mounted on a pole in the foreground as well as a man in a torn coat with his hat in his hands and an older man reclining and frowning.

BM 5109a
John Malcom.
[1774]; Dessine et Grave par F. Godefroy de l’Academie Imple et Rle de Vienne &c A Paris chez Marel, (19 x 22 cm)

A French engraving featuring John Malcolm on a street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He is on a horse-drawn cart being hoisted up by his wrists and held against his will by a man. To the left a young man reaches for tar in a pot and a young boy hands him feathers from a wicker basket. To the right is a crowd of people. There are also additional people watching from open windows. Scene depicts the tarring and feathering of John Malcom in January of 1774; text beneath is in French. Note on file indicates this is the 2nd state of the engraving. The first is in Recueil d’estampes representant…AAS call number: E150 P792 R784F.

BM 5226
The able Doctor; or America Swallowing the Bitter Draught.
[1774]; CPDBM indicates image was published for the Westminster Magazine, (13 x 21 cm)

Engraving featuring America with breasts exposed being forced to drink from a tea kettle; behind her Britannia with shield and spear covers her eyes. To the right a man stands with drawn sword labeled “Military Law”. In the background are ships labeled “Boston cannonaded”; in the foreground is a torn paper reading “Boston Petition” CPDBM indicates the men forcing America to drink are Lord Mansfield and North as well as Sandwich and two men dressed to represent Spain and France point to the Boston Port Bill which emerges from North’s pocket. America is seen vomiting the tea. Sandwich peers up the skirt of America.

BM 5228 copy 1 and copy 2
The Mitred Minuet.
[1774]; CPDBM indicates image was published for the London Magazine, (13 x 21 cm)

Engraving featuring four bishops dancing with their arms touching and wearing miters; on the floor beneath them is a piece of paper entitled “Quebec Bill. To the left is a Scotsman with kilt and bagpipes and two other men, one pointing. There is also a devil with horns and wings to the left. CPDBM indicates the men are North, Lord Bute and a minister. Additional men in clerical robes are seated to the right against a paneled wall.

BM 5232
A New Method of Macarony Making, as Practiced at Boston in North America.
[1774]; Printed for Carrington Bowles. No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London, (23 x 14.5 cm)

Mezzotint of an exterior scene where a man with arms folded has a rope around his neck and has been tarred and feathered (CPDBM indicates it is likely John Malcolm). The gallows behind feature a broken rope. Holding the tarred and feathered man are two colonists, one with a hat reading “45” on its brim and a large tea pot in his hands. 

BM 5232a
Hancock’s Warehouse for Tarring & Feathering.
[1774?]; s.n., (18 x 10.5 cm)

Engraving of an exterior scene with three men being tarred and feathered. One man is submerged in a barrel of tar by two men while another is being stuffed into a sack. A third has his hands over his eyes and is completely covered in feathers. A crowd with raised hats and sticks cheers on the men. To the left is an unidentified building.

BM 5232b
The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man or Tarring & Feathering.
[1774]; London Printed for Robt Sayer & J. Bennett, Map & Printseller No. 53 Fleet Street as the Act directs 31, Oct. 1774, (18 x 10.5 cm)

A facsimile copy of a mezzotint labeled “Print 1”. Featuring Bostonians at Boston Harbor; in the foreground is a liberty cap and spear on the ground. In the background is a ship with tea being thrown into the harbor. To the right is a tree labeled “Liberty Tree” with an overturned copy of the Stamp Act. Five men are seen holding open the mouth of a man, likely John Malcolm, while forcing him to drink tea.

BM 5236
The Dissolution of P-T [Parliament].
[1774?]; CPDBM indicates image was published for the London Magazine, (13 x 21 cm)

Engraving featuring a street scene where a stage coach being drawn by horses is passing a doorway labeled “John Wilkes Esqr Neat Port Chaises”; the stage coach is labeled “For the Corrupted Boroughs” and is carrying numerous men. In the foreground is a bent woman with two children, a man with two missing legs and several pieces of paper labeled “General Warrants” “Boston Port Bill” “Quebec” and “Indentures”.

BM 5241
The Bostonians in Distress.
[1774]; London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, Map & Printsellers, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 19 Novr 1774, (37 x 28 cm)

Mezzotint featuring a hanging cage from the Liberty Tree; inside the cage are ten hungry men, Bostonians, being fed fish by three men in a boat. Standing in the cage is a man in clerical robes with his arms extended while others are on their hands and knees begging for fish. In the distance are cannons aimed towards the cage, British soldiers and ships in Boston Harbor to the left. One of the Bostonians is handing forward a pile of documents labeled “Promises”.

BM 5242
The Colossus of the North; or the Striding Boreas.
[1774]; CPDBM indicates image was published for the London Magazine, (17 x 21 cm)

Engraving featuring the Lord North to the left with his legs separated on two stones labeled “Tyranny” and “Venality”; he is holding a lit torch labeled “America” and three pieces of paper labeled “Lottery Tickets” “Places” and “Pensions”; beneath him is a stream filled with men. To the right is Britannia with spear and sword unfolding a paper on which is written “Those that Should have been my preservers have been my destroyers” along side her is Wilkes with a broom saying “I’ll Stem the Stream” in the distance are numerous buildings.

BM 5244
The Court Cotillion or the Premiers New Parl*****t Jig.
[1774]; Terry del, et. Sculp, (20 x 12 cm)

Engraving with the Lord North in the foreground playing a fiddle while three men circling a pole labeled “Politicks for 75”; there are three signposts reading “America” “Scotland” and “England” and a crown on top. To the right is Britannia leaning on her shield holding a liberty cap and crying. The three men each are circling a wheel and are whipping each other. They are a Native American as America, a sailor as England and a bare-chested man in a kilt as Scotland.