TITLE: The moment of reflection or a tale for future times / IC. CALL NUMBER: PC 1 - 8844 (B size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-6747 (color film copy transparency)LC-USZ62-123021 (b&w film copy neg.) RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication. 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. MEDIUM: 1 print : etching, hand-colored. CREATED/PUBLISHED: London : Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 1796 Dec. 26. CREATOR: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?, artist. 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. FORMAT: Cartoons (Commentary) British 1790-1800.Etchings Hand-colored 1770-1780. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (color film copy transparency) cph 3g06747 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g06747 (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c23021 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c23021 CONTROL #: 99404753
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