xml/lby.00119.xml Icons of Liberty: "Death or Liberty!"

George Cruikshank, "Death or Liberty!," (1819)

George Cruikshank, "Death or Liberty!" (1819). Reproduced from George M. Dorothy, English Political Caricature 1793-1832, Volume Two, Clarendon Press, 1959, Plate 72. Cruikshank's cartoon shows Death in the guise of Liberty attacking Britannia as the British Lion, "Loyalty," charges to the rescue. Cruikshank is expressing anxiety over the prospects of radical reform.