print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1978,U.527
- Description
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A Republican soldier and a revolutionary lifting the tricolore with the title of the book lettered on it, the banner obscuring the guillotine behind it which stands on a triumphal arch, above, an eagle and a cockerel holding chains of flowers between a crown above a carved 'N', a cap of Liberty below and trophies of arms to either side, skulls set into the stonework, two mothers with their children weeping below the guillotine; beneath them, Liberty and Equality opening the gate of a dungeon from which demonic and insane figures escape, the French royal arms placed centrally above the door; frontispiece to Thier's "The History of the French Revolution" (1837)
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1837
- Dimensions
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Height: 292 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 202 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: French Revolution 1789-1799
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The History of the French Revolution
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1978,U.527
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1891,1116.179