Hand-colored engraved caricature, published May 12, 1776; 'A lady (three-quarter length) on whose grotesquely extended coiffure military operations are proceeding. She stands in profile to the left. holding a fan. At the top of her pyramid of hair soldiers fire cannon from a rectangular fort (l.) which appears to be American at other soldiers firing cannon from an adjacent mound (r.) composed of ringlets of hair. Two immense flags flying from the fort bear, one a crocodile, the other a cross-bow and arrows; the flags of their opponents, the English, are decorated one with an ass, the other with a fool's cap and bells. Below this combat are tents and two men with a cannon. On the lower rightolls of hair are red-coats marching in single file, followed by a baggage waggon. Lower down again, red-coats in boats are rowing towards two ships in full sail'. -- British Museum. This evidently satirizes the evacuation of Boston by Howe, 17 Mar. 1776.
S., T.,
"Noddle Island, or How we are decieved"
(1776).
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
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