America
toe
miss
moth
yew
eye
old woman
hat
yew
dove
toe
plane
toe
attention
awl
eye
butt
eye
toe
eye
thinking
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child
yew
toe
awl
bee
visitors
eye
yew
truss
eye
butt
yew
knot
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puppets
eye
comb
toe
yew
yew
eye
toe
man
toe
eye
urn
back
bob
eye
eye
coat
dirtying
hose
heel
shoes
eye
yew
eyes
ewer
vice
yew
toe
ewer
ships
eye
ears
well
ewer
eye
eye
ling
toe
eye
toe
eye
eye
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foolish
vice
hat
eye
awl
awl
yew
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butt
knot
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grate
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America to Her Mistaken Mother
America to her mistaken mother. You silly old woman, that you have sent a dove to us is very plain, to draw our attention from our real interests, but we are determined to abide by our own ways of thinking. Your five children you have sent to us shall be treated as visitors and safely sent home again. You may trust them and admire them, but you must not expect one of your puppets will come home to you as sweet as you sent him. ‘Twas cruel to send so pretty a man so many thousand miles and to have the fatigue of returning back after bobbing his coat and dirtying those red-heeled shoes. If you are wise, follow your own advice you gave to me. Take home your ships [and] soldiers. Guard well your own trifling and leave me to my self, as I am at age to know my own interests without your foolish advice, and know that I shall always regard you and my brothers as relations but not as friends. I am your greatly injured Daughter Amerik.
Publisher: Darly, M. (Mary) [London]
Date: 1778
Description: Etching; 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.
Language: English [England]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Tags: 18th-century, American, British, Colonial America, politics, revolution, women
The colonial response to Britannia to America reflects a lack of faith in the sincerity of British offers and a strong determination for independence. Published several weeks before the three commissioners from England joined the Howes in America, the rebus is prophetic of the colonists’ refusal to meet with the commission.
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