print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1856,0712.1127
- Title
- Object: Portraits of Genl Kellermann, Genl Custine, Petion, Danton, Thouret, Barnave, Robertspierre, Genl Dumourier, La, Fayette, & Marat.
- Description
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A companion print to BMSat 8474. A man wearing a cocked hat and quasi-military but slovenly dress, stands (left) holding a reversed firebrand and looking down at a terrestrial globe in which the arrangements of land represent four profiles. From his moustache he appears to be a German. Three other profiles are formed by the branches of a leafless tree. A pendant tree (right) contains three other profiles. Between the two trees is a landscape in which are ruined and burning buildings. In the foreground church plate and other looted objects are heaped together: a mitre, a crucifix, a censer, a crozier, &c, and a money-bag inscribed '100000'. 14 July 1794
Etching
- Production date
- 1794
- Dimensions
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Height: 117 millimetres
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Width: 150 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)
Cf. Hennin, Nos. 12018, 12019.
For German plates with the same composition see Hennin cat. Nos 12020 and 12019.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1856
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1856,0712.1127
