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Presages of the Millennium
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Presages of the Millennium
Original Image Dimensions 18"x24"
Source The Duncan Wu Collection
Description The naked form of the Prime Minister William Pitt is seated on the white horse of
Hanover, looking uncannily like death on a pale horse, prophesied in the Bible as a
vision preceding the apocalypse. Many people in June 1795 (when this image was cast)
believed such a crisis had arrived, in part because the failure of harvests had led
to starvation and popular unrest.