R. Sayer and J. Bennett
A Society of Patriotic Ladies, at Edenton, in North Carolina

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Publisher R. Sayer and J. Bennett (London, 1774/77–1784)London, 1774/77–1784

CultureEnglish

Titles

A Society of Patriotic Ladies, at Edenton, in North Carolina

Date1775

Published inLondon, England

Place depictedEdenton, North Carolina, United States

MediumMezzotint with engraving on laid paper

DimensionsPlate: 14 × 10 in. (35.6 × 25.4 cm)
Sheet: 15 3/4 × 11 1/16 in. (40 × 28.1 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, museum purchase funded by the Houston Junior Woman's Club

Object numberB.91.35

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Bayou Bend

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DescriptionThis print satirizes the action of a group of women in Edenton, North Carolina, who in October of 1774 signed a pledge against tea and other British imports. The unflattering portraits suggest the contemptuous tone of the satire. An especially ironic element is the enslaved women who holds the inkwell that the others use to sign the pledge against the taxed articles that “Enslave this our native country.”
Provenance[Paul McCarron, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1991.
Exhibition History"Radicals and Revolutionaries: America's Founding Fathers," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 10–May 28, 2018.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscripted in graphite on recto lower center: 1058

Printed center below the image: A SOCIETY OF PATRIOTIC LADIES / AT / EDENTON in NORTH CAROLINA / London, Printed for R. Sayer, & J. Bennett, No. 53 in Fleet Street, as the Act directs 25 March 1775.
Printed recto lower left: Plate V.

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