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Backside 'side' scored through & front view of the ladies fancy-man, Paddy Carey O'Killus Dsq &c &c - Erected in Hide Park, in honor of the "Waterloo man" & his Soger men J. Pxxxy, invt. ; G. Cruikk, fect, British Cartoon Print

Backside 'side' scored through & front view of the ladies fancy-man, Paddy Carey O'Killus Dsq &c &c - Erected in Hide Park, in honor of the "Waterloo man" & his Soger men J. Pxxxy, invt. ; G. Cruikk, fect, British Cartoon Print

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"The back view of the Achilles statue burlesqued on its high pedestal raised on a plinth and the front view of the booted statue, displaying a grotesque face, and the fig-leaf..." (Source: George).

Two designs side by side.
Relates to a statue of Achilles by Richard Westmacott installed in Hyde Park in 1822 as a monument to Arthur Wellesley, the first duke of Wellington.
Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum / by Mary Dorothy George, v. 10, no. 14376
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).

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01/01/1822
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St. James's (London, England)
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Library of Congress
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