1. Communicating Revolutionary Ideas In Political Cartoons
American Revolution
Communicating Revolutionary Ideas In Political Cartoons

2. Poor Old England “Poor Old England Endeavoring to Reclaim her Wicked American Children = and therefore is England maimed & forc’d to go with a Staff.”

3. The Colossus William Pitt walking on stilts; the right stilt, labeled "Sedition", points to New York, the left, labeled "Popularity", is firmly planted in London. He uses one crutch, labeled "Pension", for support, and the other, held upside down as though a mallet, with winged serpents forming a caduceus, points toward St. Stephens Chapel.

4. Magna Britannia: Her Colonies Reduced. Benjamin Franklin
Magna Britannia: Her Colonies Reduced. Benjamin Franklin. Engraving depicts the image of the female figure Britannia with her limbs cut off, symbolizing the danger of England losing her American colonies through oppressive taxation.

5. Its Companion shows France defending America against Britain while Lord Bute is lifting her skirt to allow Spain to stab her indelicately.

6. A Warm Place – Hell. 1768, engraved by Paul Revere, condemning to hell seventeen men who voted to rescind a Massachusetts circular letter against duties imposed by the the Townsend Act, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain the previous year.

7. A Society of Patriotic Ladies. 1775
A Society of Patriotic Ladies The engraving was produced by an English artist who most likely aimed at undermining the credibility of American protests by suggesting that women participating in them were hardly "ladies.” The women were signing a nonimportation resolution. “Big hair” represents Lord Bute.