. Second cartoon on the English losses in the battle with America in 1778. The English commerce is represented by a skimmed dairy cow whose American conference has turned the horns grazed now in the thistles. Hereby a Dutchman with a bucket of milk, a Frenchman with a bowl and a spaniard also with a bowl, leaning on a pedestal referred to as Mexico, Peru and Chile. In the middle knits rats to the empty British treasure chest, the Englishman prays and roars the British lion to his injury to a broken teapot (a reference to the Boston Tea Party of 1773). In the background, British envoys visit th

. Second cartoon on the English losses in the battle with America in 1778. The English commerce is represented by a skimmed dairy cow whose American conference has turned the horns grazed now in the thistles. Hereby a Dutchman with a bucket of milk, a Frenchman with a bowl and a spaniard also with a bowl, leaning on a pedestal referred to as Mexico, Peru and Chile. In the middle knits rats to the empty British treasure chest, the Englishman prays and roars the British lion to his injury to a broken teapot (a reference to the Boston Tea Party of 1773). In the background, British envoys visit the Americans (presented as Indians), afterwards Yorktown (possibly this refers to the English defeat under Cornwallis against Americans and French at Yorktown, Sept-Oct 1781). In the water off the coast the sunken wreck of the English ship de eagle, conquered by the Americans September 17, 1778. Signed upside down: NO 2. The print is a text sheet with an explanation of the show.

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