Revere’s engraving, “A View of the Year 1765”, protests the passage of the Stamp Act of 1765. It was Revere's first political cartoon and is known today apparently by only four copies. The engraving depicts the Stamp Act dragon being slain by New York, Boston and Virginia and an effigy of a pro-Stamp Act member of the House of Commons, John Huske, hanged from the Liberty Tree.

Revere copied this plate largely from an English caricature entitled “View of the present Crisis”, which was published in April, 1763, in the Scots Scourge, Volume 2, plate 24. In adapting his plate for American consumption, Revere replaced a group in the original English version substituting the Liberty Tree with the hanging of Huske as well as adding four additional figures to the group opposing the dragon to depict the United Provinces.

Prints were first offered for sale for one tenth of a colonial dollar in January of 1766.

Paul Revere, circa December 1765,
Concord Museum, Concord, MA, 2/23/19