Cartoon on the English losses in the battle with America (2), 1778, Second cartoon on the English losses in the battle with America in 1778. The English trade, represented by a skinny dairy cow whose horns have been sawed off by the American Congress, now grazes in the thistles. Here is a Dutchman with a bucket of milk, a Frenchman with a bowl and a Spaniard also with a bowl, leaning on a pedestal labeled as Mexico, Peru and Chile. In the middle, rats gnaw on the empty British treasury, the Englishman prays and the British lion roars over his injury from a broken teapot (a reference to the Boston Tea Party of 1773). In the background, British envoys visit Native Americans (represented as a group of men wearing feather headdresses) with Justice on the left and Strength, Hercules and Prudence on the right. To the left of the Americans three barrels with place indication: Marseille, Nantes and Cadix. Behind it Yorktown (possibly this refers to the English defeat under Cornwallis against the Americans and French at Yorktown, Sept-Oct 1781). In the water off the coast the sunken wreck of the English ship Eagle, captured by the Americans on September 17, 1778. Marked bottom left: No 2. The print includes a text sheet with an explanation of the scene., print, print maker: anonymous, Northern Netherlands, 1778, paper, etching, engraving, height, 212 mm × width, 286 mm

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