American Revolution: British Political Cartoons
Publisher: PaperlessArchives.com
Published: 2008
Place of publication: United States
Format: CD-ROM
Number of pages: 339
Description: 170 British political cartoons dating from 1766 to 1787 referencing the American Revolution, archived on CD-ROM. 
The drawings show early rebelliousness in the American Colony, open Revolution, and the aftermath of England's loss of the colony. The earliest illustration from 1866 depicts the end of the stamp act of 1865. Features several illustrations by the famous British caricaturist James Gillray. The prints often show satirical expressions of English views of the American Revolution. The drawing give representations of the Boston Tea Party, the Stamp Act, The French aligning with the upstart American colony, harsh treatment of loyalists, The economic of the cost of the war and cost of losing the American colony, and the practice of tar and feather. America is often depicted as a rattlesnake, an American Indian, a buffalo, or a wild horse. Many illustrations were reproduced at the time in London magazine and The Westminster magazine. 

Caricatures in the illustrations includes: George Washington, King George III, Charles Cornwallis, Admiral Richard Howe, General William Howe, Count de Rochambeau, Horatio Gates, William Pitt, Charles James Fox, George Grenville, Lord Sandwich, Lord Bute, Edmund Burke, Lord Shelburne, Lord North, John Wilkes, Augustus Keppel, Charles Lee, Esek Hopkins, Lord Thurlow, John Dunning, George Germain, Earl of Mansfield, Lord Rockingham, General Burgoyne, and others.
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