Praetor-Urbanus, Inauguration of the Coptic Mayor of Cairo, preceded by the Procureur de la Commune, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraving 1799, An obese, Copt, holding a mace or staff, rides an ass which, though led processionally by a Copt, proceeds on account of the bayonet with which a grinning French soldier stabs its hind quarters.
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Praetor-Urbanus, Inauguration of the Coptic Mayor of Cairo, preceded by the Procureur de la Commune, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraving 1799, An obese, Copt, holding a mace or staff, rides an ass which, though led processionally by a Copt, proceeds on account of the bayonet with which a grinning French soldier stabs its hind quarters.

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1799

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Photo12/Liszt Collection/Quint Lox Limited

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LZT16A00_195

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