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Sale 2689 - Lot 137

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(WORLD -- SATIRE.) James Gillray. Phaeton Alarm'd! Etching on "JWhatman" watermarked wove paper caricaturing early nineteenth-century adversarial British political figures as belligerent Greek gods and astrological bodies even though the globe below is fanned with flames and a miniature Napoleon astride Ursa Major (i.e., the Russian bear commonly seen on serio-comic maps) poses a defiant challenge. 14¾x18¼ inches sheet size, wide margins; scattered staining and short repairs including a small loss to the imprint at upper platemark. BM Satires 10972. London: H. Humphrey, 1808
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