The Reconciliation Between Britannia and Her Daughter America

Thomas Colley British
 Published London by William Richardson British

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In this satire, allegorical representations of Britannia and America embrace, as France and Spain try to pull America away, and a Dutchman watches. At right, Charles James Fox points out the struggle to Admiral Augustus Keppel. The print responds to a moment during the Revolutionary War in Britain when a new ministry was formed under the leadership of Fox, on March 30th, and a political shift that occured after May 18th, when news of Admiral George Rodney's significant naval victory near Dominica reached England.

The Reconciliation Between Britannia and Her Daughter America, Thomas Colley (British, active 1778–83), Etching

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