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George Cruikshank
1792-1878
Holy compact and alliance
wood engraving
74 x 94 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2036
Published:
[London] : [William Hone], [1820]
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Title from caption.
Detached from the pamphlet "The Man in the Moon &c. &c. &c." London : Printed by and for William Hone, 45, Ludgate Hill, 1820.
Summary:
Liberty, her hands tied behind her, stands on a funeral pyre made of a printing-press. The sovereigns of Europe dance in a ring round the flames. The Prince Regent (George IV), in back view, is between Ferdinand VII of Spain, wearing a Jesuit's biretta and an embroidered petticoat, and the Devil, also wearing a biretta. The others are (left to right) Pope Pius VII, Louis XVIII of France, Frederick William III of Prussia, Francis I of Austria, and Tsar Alexander I.
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