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The figure of an angel is carrying a child up into the sky to a place laid out with candles. Etching by James Gillray after himself.
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The figure of an angel is carrying a child up into the sky to a place laid out with candles. Etching by James Gillray after himself.

1805

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: The guardian angel, - the hint taken from the Revd. M. Peter's sublime idea of having "an angel conducting the soul of a child to heaven". Js. Gillray inv.& ft.

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