TITLE: The English lion dismember'd or the voice of the public for an enquiry into public expenditure CALL NUMBER: PC 1 - 5649 (A size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-1526 (b&w film copy neg.) RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY: Print shows, on the left, Lord North carrying a large sack labeled "Budget" over his shoulder, tethered to the sack by chain is a lion from which America (represented by a Native man wearing feathered headdress and skirt, holding in his right hand a staff topped with a liberty cap and in his left hand a tomahawk) has cut off a paw, to the right, behind the lion, are standing a Frenchman and a Spaniard, approaching from the far right are three men, members of "Associations" who demand an accounting of expenditures from Lord North. MEDIUM: 1 print : engraving. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [London] : Pub by E. Hedges No. 2, Under the Royal Exchange Cornhill, 1780 March 12th. NOTES: Title from item. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5649 Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 767. SUBJECTS: North, Frederick,--Lord,--1732-1792. Lions--1780. Government spending policy--England--1780. Economic aspects of war--England--1780. Public opinion--England--1780. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. FORMAT: Cartoons (Commentary) British 1780.Engravings British 1780. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a05317 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a05317 CONTROL #: 2004673380
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