Have this print hanging in my bedroom. Found it at an antique store in Wisconsin.

But what about our heritage! /s

Who was it a statue of?

Remember the Bowling Green Massacre!

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King George III - a piece of the tail is at the New York Historical Society

BuT hE DoeSn’T HaVe A TAiL!?!

Five days after the Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia, a pro-revolutionary group known as the New York Sons of Liberty tore down a statue of George III standing at Broadway and Bowling Green. This imaginative recreation of that event correctly shows enslaved and free Black men performing most of the labor, but dresses them in fanciful Turkish attire—a costume often worn by Black men in European art that refers to the legality of slavery in the Ottoman Empire. The Baroque architecture is more characteristic of a large European city from that era than Anglo-Dutch colonial New York, and the actual statue showed the king on horseback. Published in Paris, but based on a print issued slightly before in Augsburg and demonstrates broad European interest in the dramatic events taking place across the Atlantic. It was intended to be shown on a wall or screen using a "magic lantern", an optical device that projected the image by means of candles and mirrors, and often called a "Vue d'Optique.

I’m tired of the cancel culture mob tearing down historical monuments. /s

Wow thanks.

That was interesting

This was made François Xav. Habermann, an artist who made a whole series of these scenes of New York during the revolution.

I have myself have this one hanging on my wall that depicts how the British responded after taking the city ack.

On the originals you'll notice that the title at top is backwards as these were meant to be viewed through a zograscope! Also an easy way to tell an original from a repro but very neat none the less.

Barbarism

A sad day for New York...

It's almost like it's customary to tear down statue's of people who lose the war, not erect more at a later date long after the fact. In fact it feels downright American to tear down statues of losers.

King George III, one of Americas greatest patriots! We need to teach both sides!

That’s pretty cool. I have another print of the English Troops Landing in New York

They actually melted the statue and turned it into bullets. Fun fact.

"But our history!!"

Interesting

It was melted down into bullets. Is that not American enough for you?

The proud history of removing statues of dudes that don’t deserve to be honored in public.

That's about 100 yards from where the bull is today, right?

Black slave labor is doing all the work while the white folks are standing there watching. Just in case the Royals came out on top.

Cancel culture strikes again. Sad to see

There’s a plaque on Bowling Green where it once stood

We should have kept the statue up because without statues we will forget history, amiright? /s

Ha, love it! We should do the same for the recent Confederate statues!
Conservatives will love that too. We can sell them as commemorative bullets that they can use for their mass shootings. /s

Ew

That's right, God Save King George!

The event occurred but the depiction is likely wrong. Someone somewhere else heard the story and assumed slaves pulled down the statue. Likely they didn't.

As well the built environment is not accurate.

Wokeness is destroying our society shakes fist

Answered this previously:

Five days after the Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia, a pro-revolutionary group known as the New York Sons of Liberty tore down a statue of George III standing at Broadway and Bowling Green. This imaginative recreation of that event correctly shows enslaved and free Black men performing most of the labor, but dresses them in fanciful Turkish attire—a costume often worn by Black men in European art that refers to the legality of slavery in the Ottoman Empire. The Baroque architecture is more characteristic of a large European city from that era than Anglo-Dutch colonial New York, and the actual statue showed the king on horseback. Published in Paris, but based on a print issued slightly before in Augsburg and demonstrates broad European interest in the dramatic events taking place across the Atlantic. It was intended to be shown on a wall or screen using a "magic lantern", an optical device that projected the image by means of candles and mirrors, and often called a "Vue d'Optique.”

Oh, thank you!