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James Gillray

Light Expelling Darkness,-Evaporation of Stygian Exhalations,-or-The Sun of the Constitution, Rising Superior to the Clouds of Opposition

published April 30, 1795
Etching in dark brown, with handcoloring, on cream wove paper
33.5 × 44.4 cm (13.2 × 17.5 in)

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