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Image Title: The Ballance Sic Of Power, 1781

Date: 1781 Jany. 17.

Summary: British cartoon shows a scale on which Britannia outweighs a Frenchman, a Spaniard, America (represented by a Native woman wearing a feathered headdress), and a Dutchman. Includes ten lines of verse.

Notes: Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the / 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. 786.

Subjects: Britannia (Symbolic character)--1780-1790
International relations--1780-1790
Measuring--1780-1790
Scales--1780-1790
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783

Original Media: Etching

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