“A Characteristic Portrait of Prince Hohenlohe working Miracles,” by George Cruikshank. From Catholic Miracles; Illustrated with Seven Designs…To which is added, A Reply to Cobbett’s Defense of Catholicism, and his Libel on the Reformation (London: Knight and Lacey, 1825). Prince Hohenlohe is depicted here as a portly friar duping a blindfolded woman holding a bag of gold. Another friar is picking the woman’s pocket, while smoke rises to the ceiling of the cathedral decorated with discarded crutches of the healed. A crowd of laughing monks and religious women and an image of a charmed snake complete Cruikshank’s anti-Catholic imagery. |
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