print
- Museum number
- 1917,1208.998
- Title
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Object: The royal family of France
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Series: A graphic history of Louis the sixteenth, and the royal family of France
- Description
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The family of Louis XVI imprisoned in the Temple, three days after execution of the king; the Princesse Royale with her leg in the lap of Madame Elizabeth for the attention of a surgeon, who kneels by a plain table to left, set with a cloth, jug and bowl; a casement window in upper left, a canopied bed behind Marie Antoinette, who sits disconsolately in the centre; scratched open-letter state. 1793
Stipple and etching
- Production date
- 1793
- Dimensions
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Height: 398 millimetres (image)
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Height: 551 millimetres (image)
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Height: 464 millimetres (trimmed?)
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Width: 594 millimetres (trimmed?)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See David Bindman, 'Shadow of the Guillotine' (BMP, 1989), pp.131- 132, 150- 155. For more information on the series, see 1917,1208.997.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: French Revolution 1789-1799
- Acquisition date
- 1917
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1917,1208.998