A satire unexplained

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A satire unexplained
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sheet: 95 x 60 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2628
Published: 
[England?] : [publisher not specified], [approximately 1756]
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

Title from the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Library's copy trimmed to image border.
Design is based in part upon a detail from a larger print entitled "A political race" (BM Satires no. 2441); here reversed.

Summary: 

An emperor (probably the Emperor of Germany) flying astride an eagle, facing left, descends upon a man riding a bear (Russia).

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