The moment of reflection or a tale for future times, Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764 1811, engraving 1796, 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.
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