The Bostonians in distress
The Bostonians in distress. Print shows a re-drawn and reversed image of the famous British political cartoon where Bostonians held captive in a cage are suspended from the Liberty Tree. Three British sailors standing in a boat feed them fish from a basket labeled To -- from the Committee of -- in return for a bundle of papers labeled Promises; around the tree and in the background are cannons and British troops. The paper in the hand of one jailed Bostonian says They tried with the Lord in their Troubl and he saved them out of their Distress. CVIL 13.. Date 1774?. The Bostonians in distress. Print shows a re-drawn and reversed image of the famous British political cartoon where Bostonians held captive in a cage are suspended from the Liberty Tree. Three British sailors standing in a boat feed them fish from a basket labeled To -- from the Committee of -- in return for a bundle of papers labeled Promises; around the tree and in the background are cannons and British troops. The paper in the hand of one jailed Bostonian says They tried with the Lord in their Troubl and he saved them out of their Distress. CVIL 13.. Date 1774?
