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Medusa (Gorgon)

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  • Medusa presiding over groups of satyrs who are gambling; representing gambling or gaming as a passion. Etching by J. Audran after C. Gillot.
  • A fearful woman (Britannia) is encouraged by three British politicians to resist the invading fleet of France. Coloured etching by J. Gillray after J. Sneyd, 1803.
  • Astrology: signs of the zodiac, Perseus with Medusa's head. Coloured engraving.
  • Philip Thicknesse writing at a table, surrounded by demonic apparitions representing aspects of his life. Aquatint by J. Gillray after himself, 1790.
  • Left, Perseus cuts off the head of Medusa; right, Perseus rescues Andromeda. Etching by T. Cook, 1808, after W. Hogarth.
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    Medusa. Stipple engraving by J.K. Sherwin, 1789.

    Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790. | Date: 1789 | Reference: 11387i
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    A dying man surrounded by fantastic and mythological figures. Coloured etching.

    | Reference: 16062i
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    The heads of women are reforged in a workshop by the sea; representing a brutal cure for the 'madness' of women. Line engraving by F. Campion, 1663.

    | Date: [1663] | Reference: 18171i
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    Astrology: signs of the zodiac, Perseus with Medusa's head. Coloured engraving.

    | Reference: 46441i
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    Perseus with the head of Medusa turning into stone Polydectes and his army. Engraving by C. Alberti after Polidoro da Caravaggio, 1525.

    Polidoro, da Caravaggio, approximately 1495-approximately 1543. | Date: [between 1600 and 1609?] | Reference: 2475262i
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