print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.12540
- Title
- Object: Suwarrow giving the French Directory a taste of the knout!!
- Description
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One of the Directory, stripped to the waist, is chained by the wrists to a post inscribed 'Tree of Liberty' and surmounted by a bonnet-rouge (cf. BMSat 9214, &c). Suvóroff holds him by the hair and ferociously raises a whip to strike. He wears a fur-bordered cap (with skull and cross-bones as in BMSat 9387), tunic, cloak, and boots, and says: "This is the new Dance a la Carmagnole!" The other four Directors (see BMSat 9387), full-face, but looking sideways in horror at the Russian, wait their turn; one (left) kneels in supplication. They wear their official dress (see BMSat 9199); the cloak and hat of the victim are on the ground. June 1799
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1799
- Dimensions
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Height: 270 millimetres
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Width: 385 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)
See BMSat 9408, &c. Suvóroff's successes in Lombardy were followed by his march on Piedmont, where he was treated as a liberator; on 26 May he entered Turin.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.12540
