File:Jefferies, in the character of Atropos, cutting the thread of English Liberty LCCN2006684007.jpg

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English: Title: Jefferies, in the character of Atropos, cutting the thread of English Liberty Abstract/medium: 1 print : engraving ; 12.2 x 18.4 cm (sheet), 15.9 x 22.3 cm (mount)
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  • Title from item.
  • Includes caption printed below title: "Expla. Magna Charta drawn from the heart of King John; confirmed & perfected by King William, in the Character of Lachesis [i.e., Clotho] at the Spinning Wheel; & Judge Jefferies cutting the Thread, in the Character of Atropos."
  • Includes four lines of verse from "Pope's Homer": "The Furies that relentless breast have steel'd, / And Curst thee with a heart that cannot yield. / Yet think a Day will come when Fate's decree / And angry Men, shall wreak this wrong on thee."
  • Mounted on laid paper with watermark across bottom: B HUGHES.
  • Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / prepared by Frederic George Stephens, v. 4, no. 4441
  • Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
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cartoon prints, british · prints and photographs division
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john · king of england · mansfield, william murray · earl of · jeffreys, george jeffreys · baron · william · iii · liberty · england · civil rights · spinning apparatus · atropos · (greek deity) · fates (mythology) · cartoons (commentary) · british · engravings
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england
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England
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Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1770 · Engravings--1770

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