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The savages let loose, or the cruel fate of the loyalists
Description
English: American loyalists are being murdered by Native Americans. An Indian (left) seizes by the hair a loyalist lying on the ground, and holds up a knife saying "I'll scalp him". Another Indian (right) raises a tomahawk in both hands above a loyalist who kneels on one knee, saying "O cruel Fate! is this the Return for our Loyalty". The Indian says, "I'll tomahawk the Dog".


A third Indian (left) pulls a rope attached to the ropes by which four loyalists hang by the neck to the branch of a tree, inscribed "Recommended to Congress by lord S------e" [Shelburne]. He is saying "I have them all in a String."
The Native Americans all wear tall feather head-dresses and kilts of feathers. Of the six loyalists, two of those hanging from the tree are dressed as military officers, the others as civilians.
Beneath the design is engraved:

"Is this a Peace, when Loyalists must bleed?
It is a Bloody Piece of work indeed."c. March 1783


Etching with hand-colouring
Depicted people Associated with: William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Lansdowne
Date 1783
date QS:P571,+1783-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 350 millimetres
Width: 437 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4933
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) The chief danger to the loyalists was not from Red Indians, but from penal legislation, confiscation of property, and personal molestation at the hands of Americans, who, however, are perhaps represented by the Indians. The provision for loyalists in the peace terms was resented by American loyalists and denounced by many Englishmen, sometimes factiously, sometimes sincerely. To quote a contemporary squib:

"Tis an honor to serve the bravest of nations And be left to be hanged in their capitulations."

But "England had gotten for the loyalists the utmost attainable in the treaty and, later, proved honorable and generous in the highest degree by compensating the Loyalists out of her own treasury". Van Tyne, 'The Loyalists in the American Revolution', 1902, p. 288. See BMSat 6171, 6184, 6223.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4933
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