2-329-800 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Burning John Jay's effigy, c1794 (c1880). One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, John Jay served as the chief negotiator on the American side for the Treaty of London, signed in 1794 between Britain and the United States. The treaty was very unpopular with some elements of the population, for whom Jay became a hate figure. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume II, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.