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.
hand colored engraving
8 3/8 x 13 1/4 in.
Peel 2029
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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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.

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