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The Christian amazon, with her invincible target : Alias, the focus of genial rays, or Dian of the Rushes, to much for 300,000, Infidels
etching with aquatint
image: 242 x 355 mm; sheet: 278 x 364 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1609
Published:
[London] : Published as the Act directs Octr 24th 1787, by J. Crawford N° 7 Middle Row Holborn, [1787]
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Summary:
Cartoon shows Catherine II, as an amazon with sword raised and bearing a shield emblazoned with double-headed eagle, battling the Sultan, Selim III, attacking with a rifle fixed with bayonet; Joseph II, an ally, hides behind Catherine; an apish Louis XVI and the King of Spain stand to the side of the Sultan; in the background the Turkish army fires cannon and lobs hand-grenades which are rebuffed by Catherine's shield.
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