Design for the new gallery of busts and pictures -"and so far will I trust thee gentle Kate" -Henry 4th, part 1st / / Peter,burgh, inv. et fecit., British Cartoon Print
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Cartoon shows interior view of a portrait gallery with busts of Demosthenes and Cicero, both frowning, and between them a bust of Charles J. Fox; hanging on the wall above are two prints showing Catherine II of Russia, in one, titled Justice, she is about to stab a sultan, in the other, Moderation, she is facing a map of Moldavia, Bessarabia, and Wallachia, which she embraces with outspread arms; hanging above the bust of Fox is a crowned circle inscribed "Conjugal love [-] A cure for the Haemerroidical Cholic" within which is a rope noose.
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. 6, no. 8072
Exhibit loan 4161-L.
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