The Moment of Reflection,Tale for Future Times,Cathering the Great,Cartoon,1796

Title: The moment of reflection or a tale for future times / IC.
Creator(s): Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?, artist
Date Created/Published: London : Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 1796 Dec. 26.
Summary: Cartoon shows Catherine II horrified at the visions that beset her at the moment of death; a cloud entering at left depicts the many victims of her wrath; a skeleton, Death, stands behind her ready to plunge his spear and send her cloven-hoofed spirit into the hands of two grinning demons waiting in the flames of hell; a frightened Charles Fox witnesses the visions from a portrait on the wall behind her.
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, v. 7, no. 8844
Exhibit loan 4161-L.
Subjects:
Catherine--II,--Empress of Russia,--1729-1796--Death & burial.
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806.
Death--1790-1800.
Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1790-1800.
Etchings--Hand-colored--1770-1780.
Bookmark /99404753/
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