A caricature by James Gillray first by published by Hannah Humphrey on November 21st, 1786. A satire on Cagliostro's attempt to found an Egyptian Lodge in London in 1786. Shows a sitting of the Masonic lodge of Antiquity, at M. Barker, a wigmaker, King Street, Bloomsbury, master of the lodge, on November 1, 1786, at which the Earl of Cagliostro was invited; Where he was mocked, as the French and English explains, below the square line of the print, the "Abridged History of the Arab Count." This print is from the 1849 edition published by Henry G. Bohn.
Approx 47cms by 51cms.