Zoom in on Political Prints

• Williamsburg’s Liberty Men gave loyalists a choice of signing allegiance to their cause or visiting the Liberty Tree's tar and feathers.

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• Paul Revere dedicated to sons of liberty an engraving of the Boston Common obelisk celebrating the Stamp Act’s repeal.

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• John McRae’s engraving, after Frederick Chapman’s 1776 painting, of the raising of a liberty pole in a village center.

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• Johannes Oertel’s painting, engraved here by John McRae, of the pulling down of the George III statue at the Bowling Green, City of New York, July 1776.

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• In this popular satire on the Stamp Act, supporters of the act carry a coffin filled with the remains of the bill in a mock funeral procession.

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• The timely cartoon, “The able doctor, or, American swallowing the bitter draught,” 1774.

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