Praetor Urbanus,Inauguration of Coptic Mayor of Cairo,Egypt,March 1799,Obese

Title: 'Praetor-Urbanus;' - Inauguration of the Coptic Mayor of Cairo, preceded by the Procureur de la Commune / Etched by Js. Gillray.
Creator(s): Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist
Date Created/Published: [London] : Pubd. by H. Humphrey, 1799 March 12th.
Summary: An obese, Copt, holding a mace or staff, rides an ass which, though led processionally by a Copt, proceeds on account of the bayonet with which a grinning French soldier stabs its hind quarters.
Notes:
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, no. 9358.
Subjects:
Copts--Egypt--Cairo--1790-1800.
Mayors--Egypt--Cairo--1790-1800.
Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1790-1800.
Etchings--Hand-colored--1790-1800.
Bookmark /98517183/
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