Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library
The vanity of human glory. A design for the monument of General Wolfe, 1760
1760
An attack on George Sackville for his alleged misconduct at Minden. Wolfe had recently died in glory on the battlefield at Quebec. The hound in the cartoon represents Sackville -- it is disgracing itself on the corpse of the lion representing Wolfe.
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