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| Keywords: AbleDoctor RoyalAmericanMagazine02764003.jpg The able Doctor or America Swallowing the Bitter Draught Creator Paul Revere engraver Source Title The royal American magazine or Universal repository of instruction and amusement For June 1774 Boston Printed by and for I Thomas near the Market 1774 Cartoon showing a European gentleman with the Boston Port Bill in his pocket pouring tea down a native American woman's mouth She is being held down by a lascivious gentleman at her feet and a judge at her arms A woman holding a spear and shield covers her eyes while a gentleman holds a sword with Military Law on it In the background is a scene of Boston cannonaded and in the foreground is a tattered paper containing Boston's petition to England Britannia weeps as Frederick Lord North pours tea into the mouth of America while a Frenchman and a Spaniard with the Order of the Golden Fleece watch from the side William Murray first earl of Mansfield Lord Chief Justice and an opponent of repealing the Stamp Act holds America's wrist while John Montagu fourth earl of Sandwich First Lord of the Admiralty holds her ankles The man with a sword represents John Stuart earl of Bute prime minister for George III from 1762 to 1763 and instrumental in negotiating the Treaty of Paris in a Scottish hat and kilt Revere copied this image from an original in London Magazine Apr 1774 vol 43 p 185; the only change being that Revere added the word tea to the teapot The Boston Port Bill levied as a punishment for the Boston Tea Party was signed into law on March 31 1774 and provided the final wedge between Massachusetts and the crown Image is placed horizontally on page Published first by Isaiah Thomas and then Joseph Greenleaf in Boston this magazine was produced from January 1774 until April 1775 when the war put an end to publication Brown University John Carter Brown Archive of Early American Images http //www lunacommons org/luna/servlet/JCB~1~1 1774 Paul Revere; published in the Royal American Magazine 150px150px150px Royal American Magazine Engravings by Paul Revere Boston Tea Party in art 1774 cartoons 1770s political cartoons of the United States American Revolution England in the 1770s Boston in the 1770s Britannia Personifications of the United States PD-old-100 | ||||
