https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/haaimagehosting/original/3c2aab221cae1a9dcdb6180662bc08e9.jpg 328ad0b330ff676ea2f33cf49a46a073 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Money Matters, Thursday 4/8 Supplement IIIF Collection Metadata UUID f90c1bf0-7c6a-4774-bc39-d25acc773b76 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The yankie doodles intrenchments near Boston 1776 Subject The topic of the resource Anonymous etching British Museum Description An account of the resource Behind a well-made trench, fronted with palisades, appear the heads of its defenders; words issue from their mouths in long labels. One man stands on the top of the trench, his cap is inscribed "Death or Liberty", his coat and stockings are ragged, and he stands as if shivering with cold, his bayonetted musket tucked under his arm and pointing downwards; he says "I swear its plaguy Cold Jonathan; I don't think They'll Attack us, Now You". The other men, whose heads and shoulders only appear above the trench, say (l. to right.): "I dont feel bold today" (the speaker is dressed as a minister, with flat hat, lank hair, and bands). His neighbour says, "I fear they'll Shoot Again"; a man wearing a "Death or Liberty" hat says, "How, Borgoine & Clinton let us keep a good Sqint on for if they come here they'll warm us I fear" Another man wearing a "Death or Liberty" cap says "blast their Eyes We'll have no Excise" Another minister of puritanic appearance says, "Tis Old Olivers Cause No Monarchy nor Laws" He holds a flag on which is a tree, inscribed "Liberty", surmounted by a fool's cap and flanked by two gibbets labelled "The Fruit". Another man wearing a "Death or Liberty" cap, says, "I fear Our Genll is Still a Labourer in Vain". The last man is in military uniform with epaulettes and a gorget; one hand is on a small cannon in an embrasure, the other holds a bottle which stands on a thick book, presumably a Bible; he says "The Spirit moves us in Sun-dry places &c. Yet I fear the Lord is not With us." Beneath the design is etched, "Behold the Yankies in there ditch's Whose Conscience gives such griping twitch's They'r ready to Be S--t their Brech's. Yankie Doodle do. Next see the Hypocritic parson Who thay all wish to turn an A--s on Altho' the Devil keps the farce on. Yankie &c. See Putnam that Commands in Chief Sir Who looks & Labours like a thief sir To get them daily Bread & Beef sir. Yankie &c. Their Congress now is quite disjoint'd Since Gibbits sis for them appointed For fighting gainst ye Lords Annointed. Yankie, doodle" 1776 Etching -- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) The artist appears to have been ignorant of Washington's appointment, 15 June 1775, as commander-in-chief. He took over the command or the troops round Boston on 3 July 1775, superseding not Israel Putnam (appointed fourth major-general June 1775) but Artemis Ward, Boston was evacuated by Howe on 17 Mar. 1776. Cf. BMSat 5392. For the New England pine-tree flag, used before the stars and stripes, see BMSat 5336. One of the few satires hostile to the Americans, cf. BMSat 5401, 6288. (Additional note) It has been suggested that this satire is not British, but American from the pro-Loyalist side. See E.P.Richardson, 'Four American Political Prints', American Art Journal, VI, November 1974, pp.36-44. IIIF Item Metadata UUID 5d319b16-29ce-400d-8922-91db7039683e