Cleveland Museum of Art

Oh Heigh Oh or A View of the Back Settlements

Matthew Darly

Date

1776

Medium

engraving

Culture

England, 18th century

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Satirical prints were very popular in 18th-century England. In 1776 the region that is now Ohio was part of New France. Unlike the thirteen colonies on the eastern seaboard, New France was never effectively colonized and the population remained small. Since the main interest of the French was commercial exploitation (the basis of the economy was the fur trade), communities remained only frontier outposts.

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