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  • The death of Julius Caesar: Caesar is lying on the ground, assassinated by a group of senatorial conspirators led by Cassius Longinus and Marcus Iunius Brutus on the Ides of March. Engraving by J.C. Armytage after J.L. Gérome.
  • The assassination of Alexander II: the place outside the Winter Palace is strewn with corpses and debris of the bomb-explosion, while Alexander emerges alive from his coach. Process print (?).
  • An episode in The maid's tragedy: Evadne kills the king in his bed in revenge for his having raped her. Etching by E. Kirkall after F. Boitard.
  • King George III and Queen Charlotte, seated at a latrine, receive with agitation news from William Pitt the younger, who tells them that the King of Sweden had been assassinated. Etching by J. Gillray, 1792.