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 [not printed before 1877]
Publication Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book.
Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877) v. i, no. 30.
Numbered in lower right of plate: 30.
Temporary local subject terms: Weapons: Maces.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : oval design 14.2 x 12 cm, on plate 18.5 x 14 cm, on sheet 28 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Caricatures Scotland 1785
Drypoints Scotland Edinburgh 1877
Etchings Scotland Edinburgh 1877
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 > 1785
Scotland > Edinburgh > 1877

Access: Public
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