The modern Hercules destroying the Hydra of fanaticism [graphic]

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Title: The modern Hercules destroying the Hydra of fanaticism [graphic]
Creator: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created: [1789] and [printed not before 1842]
Publication Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842), v. i, pt 1, p. 67.
See no. 7580 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, for earlier state.
Temporary local subject terms: Weapons: maces.
Extent: 1 print : oval design 14.2 x 11.3 cm. on plate 18.5 x 13.6 cm, on sheet 25 x 15 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Caricatures Scotland 1789
Etchings Scotland Edinburgh 1789
Drypoints Scotland Edinburgh 1789
Material: etching with stipple & drypoint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Scotland.
Subject (Name): Carlyle, Alexander, 1722-1805
Subject (Topic): Hydra
Clergy
Subjects: Carlyle, Alexander, 1722-1805 > Caricatures and cartoons
Hydra
Clergy > Scotland
Scotland > 1789
Scotland > Edinburgh > 1789

Access: Public
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