Category:The tea-tax-tempest

Title: The tea-tax-tempest, or the Anglo-American Revolution (alternative title: The tea-tax-tempest, or old Time showing his Magick Lantern)

Abstract: Print shows a satire expressing a Continental European view of the American Revolution, showing Father Time using a magic lantern to project the image of a teapot exploding among frightened British troops as American troops advance through the smoke. Figures representing world opinion look on: an Indian for America, a black woman representing Africa, a woman holding a lantern symbolizing Asia, and a woman bearing a shield for Europe. Physical description: 1 print : etching and engraving.

Notes: Title from item.; Exhibited: "Steeped in History : The Art of Tea" at the Fowler Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, 2009.; 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. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 738.; Title also appears in German and French.; Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).; Similar impression with the "Gallic cock" and bellows is filed in PGA - Guttenberg--The tea-tax-tempest ... (B size).; Attributed to Carl Guttenberg.