{"@context":"http://www.shared-canvas.org/ns/context.json","@id":"https://haaimagehosting.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/oa/items/1398/manifest.json","@type":"sc:Manifest","label":"Money Matters, Thursday 4/8 Supplement","sequences":[{"@id":"https://haaimagehosting.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/oa/items/1398/sequence.json","@type":"sc:Sequence","label":"","canvases":[{"@id":"https://haaimagehosting.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/oa/items/1398/canvas.json","label":"The yankie doodles intrenchments near Boston 1776\r\n","@type":"sc:Canvas","width":2500,"height":2037,"images":[{"@id":"https://haaimagehosting.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/oa/files/372/anno.json","motivation":"sc:painting","@type":"oa:Annotation","resource":{"@id":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/haaimagehosting/original/3c2aab221cae1a9dcdb6180662bc08e9.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","width":2500,"height":2037,"service":{"@id":"https://iiif.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/loris/atg-prod-oaas-files/haaimagehosting/original/3c2aab221cae1a9dcdb6180662bc08e9.jpg","@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"on":"https://haaimagehosting.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/oa/items/1398/canvas.json"}],"description":"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,\r\n\r\n\"How, Borgoine & Clinton\r\nlet us keep a good Sqint on\r\nfor if they come here\r\nthey'll warm us I fear\"\r\n\r\nAnother man wearing a \"Death or Liberty\" cap says\r\n\r\n\"blast their Eyes\r\nWe'll have no Excise\"\r\n\r\nAnother minister of puritanic appearance says,\r\n\r\n\"Tis Old Olivers Cause\r\nNo Monarchy nor Laws\"\r\n\r\nHe 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.\"\r\nBeneath the design is etched,\r\n\r\n\"Behold the Yankies in there ditch's\r\nWhose Conscience gives such griping twitch's\r\nThey'r ready to Be S--t their Brech's. Yankie Doodle do.\r\n\r\nNext see the Hypocritic parson\r\nWho thay all wish to turn an A--s on\r\nAltho' the Devil keps the farce on. Yankie &c.\r\n\r\nSee Putnam that Commands in Chief Sir\r\nWho looks & Labours like a thief sir\r\nTo get them daily Bread & Beef sir. Yankie &c.\r\n\r\nTheir Congress now is quite disjoint'd\r\nSince Gibbits sis for them appointed\r\nFor fighting gainst ye Lords Annointed. Yankie, doodle\" 1776\r\nEtching\r\n\r\n--\r\n(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)\r\nThe 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.\r\nFor the New England pine-tree flag, used before the stars and stripes, see BMSat 5336.\r\nOne of the few satires hostile to the Americans, cf. BMSat 5401, 6288.\r\n\r\n(Additional note)\r\nIt 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.\r\n","metadata":[{"label":"Record in Omeka","value":"<a href=\"/items/show/1398\">View page</a>"},{"label":"Subject","value":"Anonymous etching\r\nBritish Museum"}],"otherContent":[{"@id":"https://haaimagehosting.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/oa/items/1398/annolist.json","@type":"sc:AnnotationList"}]}]}],"description":"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,\r\n\r\n\"How, Borgoine & Clinton\r\nlet us keep a good Sqint on\r\nfor if they come here\r\nthey'll warm us I fear\"\r\n\r\nAnother man wearing a \"Death or Liberty\" cap says\r\n\r\n\"blast their Eyes\r\nWe'll have no Excise\"\r\n\r\nAnother minister of puritanic appearance says,\r\n\r\n\"Tis Old Olivers Cause\r\nNo Monarchy nor Laws\"\r\n\r\nHe 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.\"\r\nBeneath the design is etched,\r\n\r\n\"Behold the Yankies in there ditch's\r\nWhose Conscience gives such griping twitch's\r\nThey'r ready to Be S--t their Brech's. Yankie Doodle do.\r\n\r\nNext see the Hypocritic parson\r\nWho thay all wish to turn an A--s on\r\nAltho' the Devil keps the farce on. Yankie &c.\r\n\r\nSee Putnam that Commands in Chief Sir\r\nWho looks & Labours like a thief sir\r\nTo get them daily Bread & Beef sir. Yankie &c.\r\n\r\nTheir Congress now is quite disjoint'd\r\nSince Gibbits sis for them appointed\r\nFor fighting gainst ye Lords Annointed. Yankie, doodle\" 1776\r\nEtching\r\n\r\n--\r\n(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)\r\nThe 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.\r\nFor the New England pine-tree flag, used before the stars and stripes, see BMSat 5336.\r\nOne of the few satires hostile to the Americans, cf. BMSat 5401, 6288.\r\n\r\n(Additional note)\r\nIt 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.\r\n","metadata":[{"label":"Record in Omeka","value":"<a href=\"/items/show/1398\">View page</a>"},{"label":"Subject","value":"Anonymous etching\r\nBritish Museum"}],"service":[{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/search/1/context.json","@id":"https://haaimagehosting.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/oa/items/1398/search","label":"Search this manifest with Omeka","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/search/1/search"}]}