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The German bleeds & bears ye furs of Quaker lords & savage curs ... [graphic].
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Creator
Claypoole, James, 1720-1784?, etcher.
Title
The German bleeds & bears ye furs of Quaker lords & savage curs ... [graphic].
Publisher
[Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified]
Date
[1764]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 19 x 25 cm (7.25 x 10 in.)
Description
Political cartoon depicting Quakers and racist caricatures of Native Americans riding on the backs of German and Scots-Irish settlers surrounded by burning houses and the bodies of dead men, women, and children. In the left, Benjamin Franklin stands holding a paper reading, "Resolved/ ye Prop[riete]r/ a knave/ & tyrant/ NC D/ gov[erno]r D:o." A fox, representing Quaker Joseph Fox, stands between his legs. Quaker leader Israel Pemberton rides on the back of a Scots-Irish man, who holds a rifle. Pemberton stretches his right hand out to grasp Franklin's paper and holds a band of wampum in his left hand. A rope wrapped around his left arm is attached to the nose of a blindfolded German man who walks behind him carrying a Native American man on his back. The Native American man holds a tomahawk in his right hand and carries a pack on his back labeled, "I.P." In the foreground are bodies of a dead man, woman, and child with cut marks on their heads indicating scalping. Native American men burn houses in the background. Joseph Fox and Israel Pemberton were leaders in the Quaker "Friendly Association" that was often accused of supplying money secretly to the Native Americans.
Is referenced by
Murrell, 15
Notes
Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Attributed to Claypoole.
Text printed under image: "The German bleeds & bears ye furs/ Of Quaker Lords & savage Curs/ Th' Hibernian frets with new Disaster/ And kicks to fling his broad brim'd Master/ But help at hand Resolves to hold down/ Th' Hibernian's Head or tumble all down."
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
See Philadelphia printmaking: American prints before 1860 (West Chester, Pa.: The Tinicum Press, 1977), p. 70-89.
RVCDC
Subject
Fox, Joseph, 1710-1779 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Pemberton, Israel, 1715-1779 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Children -- Pennsylvania.
Dead persons.
Foxes.
Indians of North America -- Pennsylvania -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Indigenous peoples -- Pennsylvania -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Massacres -- Pennsylvania.
Men -- Pennsylvania.
Paxton Boys.
Quakers -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Racism in popular culture.
Society of Friends -- Political activity -- Pennsylvania.
Women -- Pennsylvania.
Geographic subject
Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| PRINT PRINT | political cartoons 1764 Ger [66984.O.9]
Accession number
66984.O.9
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