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Isaac Cruikshank - Royal recreation, British Cartoon Print

Isaac Cruikshank - Royal recreation, British Cartoon Print

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Cartoon shows Catherine II seated on a throne receiving the decapitated heads of the people of Poland from the military officer in charge of the Russian forces during the defeat of Poles in 1794; other men bring in baskets overflowing with heads; a bust of Charles Fox, in the lower right corner, observes the scene from over his right shoulder.
Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8607
Exhibit loan 4161-L.

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01/01/1795
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Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?, artist
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Library of Congress
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