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The moment of reflection or a tale for future times / IC., British Cartoon Print

The moment of reflection or a tale for future times / IC., British Cartoon Print

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Cartoon shows Catherine II horrified at the visions that beset her at the moment of death; a cloud entering at left depicts the many victims of her wrath; a skeleton, Death, stands behind her ready to plunge his spear and send her cloven-hoofed spirit into the hands of two grinning demons waiting in the flames of hell; a frightened Charles Fox witnesses the visions from a portrait on the wall behind her.
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. 8844
Exhibit loan 4161-L.

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01/01/1796
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Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?, artist
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Library of Congress
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