America.- Guttenberg (Carl) The Tea-Tax-Tempest, or The Anglo-American Revolution, engraving, an excellent well inked impression, on laid paper without a watermark, platemark 405 x 485 mm (16 x 19 in), sheet 480 x 560 mm (18 7/8 x 22 in), good margins, with faint damp-stain visible in the centre right margin, unframed, 1778
⁂ Allegorical print showing Father Time using a magic lantern to project an image of the American Revolution to an audience of the continents, with America represented by an Indian crouched in the foreground. The image shows an exploding tea pot sitting on a fire fanned by a French cock, with the Continental Army waving the Navy Jack flag charging, led by an Indian woman. On the other side of the tea pot the British regulars flee.
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