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A Radical reformer - (i.e.) a neck, or, Nothing man! / G.Ck.

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George Cruikshank

A Radical reformer - (i.e.) a neck, or, Nothing man! / G.Ck.

Published

[London] : T. Tegg, 1819.

hand colored engraving
8 3/8 x 13 1/4 inches
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2029
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

The 'Heads of the Nation' flee in terror from a huge grotesque monster (left) whose body is a guillotine from which flames stream after the fugitives. The creature wears a bonnet rouge, its jaws, with huge teeth and dripping blood, extend across the upper edge of the guillotine whose curved blade forms a vast chin.

Associated names
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, engraver.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
Classification
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