"The destruction of the Tartar idol with tar and gunpowder" — Cruikshank's penultimate illustration for Volume Two, Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1831) (original) (raw)

The destruction of the Tartar idol with tar and gunpowder

George Cruikshank

1831

Wood-engraving

6.7 cm high by 6.7 cm wide

Penultimate illustration for the second half of Daniel Defoe's Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, middle of page 537.

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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