A half naked woman held by two men, one of whom is peering up her skirt, while another forcibly pours the contents of a teapot down her throat which she spits back into his face: representing America being punished by British politicians with the Boston Port Bill. Engraving, 1774.

Selected images from this work

[1 May 1774]

1 print : line engraving and etching

The able doctor, or America swallowing the bitter draught.

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. V, London 1935, no. 5226

Wellcome Collection 12170i

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