Snuffing Out Boney!

George Cruikshank

May 1, 1814

Hand-colored etching

Fogg Museum

A caricatured man in a green coat and red sash uses scissors to snip at a small figure wearing a hat with feathers, who is perched atop a candle holder on a stool. A framed image on the wall depicts a similar scene. A caricatured man in a green coat and red sash uses scissors to snip at a small figure wearing a hat with feathers, who is perched atop a candle holder on a stool. A framed image on the wall depicts a similar scene. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Peter G. and Elizabeth S. Neumann