sh tyranny and fueled their desire to revolt. (Divine, Breen, Fredrickson, and Williams)
             Examples of art works showing the British perspective of the conflict are practically non-existent. It is possible the war was of little significance to the British, or if it was, after losing they were not going to admit it. Another theory is that few people commissioned artwork from a lost conflict. It was something to be forgotten not glorified. One example of British propaganda from before the revolution is the etching titled, The Bostonians Paying the Excise Man(1774) by an unknown artist. The etching's iconography entails "unruly colonists forcing a tax collector they had tarred and feathered to drink scalding tea."(World Book: 277) This is taking place directly in front of a tree labeled "liberty tree" wi
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