Below is a synopsis of the political cartoon, "The Bostonian’s Paying the Excise Man, or Tarring and Feathering" Read this once you had done your analysis to see if you have addressed the different scenes in the depiction.
The Bostonian’s Paying the Excise Man, or Tarring and Feathering
This satire is a version of the tarring and feathering of John Malcomb. Slightly more complex in design, it has no accompanying verse or explanation. The Liberty Tree becomes the gallows in the print, and the tar bucket and dabber can be seen in the lower left corner. Malcomb is depicted spewing out the tea that he is being forced to drink. The background vignette of the Boston Tea Party in progress is an important feature of this satire as it is one of the earliest known pictorial representations of the event. The scene is frequently extracted from the print and is used to illustrate the tea party.
