A man sits in a chair at a table reading about the French Revolution in The Gazetteer (newspaper). The candle in his right hand smokes heavily and is burnt down to a low stub. His tricorne hat is on the table and his walking stick is visibly leaning ...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Jno. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Candlesticks, Newspapers, Reading, History, and Foreign public opinion
published acording [sic] to act of Parliament, July 14, 1789.
Call Number:
789.07.14.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A stork, its head a likeness of Lafayette, stands on a rock depicted with the head of Louis XIV of France protruding from the left edge. He gazes at a crowd of frogs in various dramatic poses, some standing at attention. Opposite the stork is a stick...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834, and Bailly, Jean Sylvain, 1736-1793
"Five British sailors make a furious attack on six French soldiers, grotesque and terrified creatures, whom the sailors humiliate and insult. Their officer (left), who holds a British flag, is threatened by a sailor with clenched fists, and excretes, ...
Alternative Title:
Vision interpreted
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. July 15, 1791, by S. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Nantes (France), France, Great Britain., Great Britain, and France.
Subject (Topic):
History, Relations, Arms & armament, Defecation, Drums (Musical instruments), Fighting, Flags, British, National emblems, Rifles, Sailors, French, and Whips
Bontecou, Reed B. 1824-1907, (Reed Brockway), and Fort Monroe (Va.).
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Military, Military hospitals, Death, Hospital wards, Nurses, Physicians, War casualties, Ambulances, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and History
"A broadside satirising Robert Walpole with an etching in two parts. In the left-hand scene Frederick, Prince of Wales, stands with the Duke of Argyll and other gentlemen, pointing to the left where George II embraces Britannia. In the foreground, the...
Description:
Title from caption above image.
Publisher:
Printed for Eliza Haywood at Fame in the Piazza, Covent Garden, and sold by the printsellers and pamphlet shops of London and Westminster, according to act of Parliament
Subject (Geographic):
Cartagena (Colombia) and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743, Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, 1707-1751, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Budgell, Eustace, 1686-1737, Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757, Haddock, Nicholas, 1686-1746, Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530, Wentworth, Thomas, active 1741, and Churchill, Mary Walpole, Lady, 1725?-1801,
Subject (Topic):
English West Indian Expedition, 1739-1742, History, Britannia (Symbolic character), Political corruption, Death (Personification), Bribery, Crowns, Decapitations, Ghosts, Justice, Putti, National emblems, British, French, Germany, and Spanish
"A broadside satirising Robert Walpole with an etching in two parts. In the left-hand scene Frederick, Prince of Wales, stands with the Duke of Argyll and other gentlemen, pointing to the left where George II embraces Britannia. In the foreground, the...
Description:
Title from caption above image.
Publisher:
Printed for Eliza Haywood at Fame in the Piazza, Covent Garden, and sold by the printsellers and pamphlet shops of London and Westminster, according to act of Parliament
Subject (Geographic):
Cartagena (Colombia) and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743, Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, 1707-1751, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Budgell, Eustace, 1686-1737, Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757, Haddock, Nicholas, 1686-1746, Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530, Wentworth, Thomas, active 1741, and Churchill, Mary Walpole, Lady, 1725?-1801,
Subject (Topic):
English West Indian Expedition, 1739-1742, History, Britannia (Symbolic character), Political corruption, Death (Personification), Bribery, Crowns, Decapitations, Ghosts, Justice, Putti, National emblems, British, French, Germany, and Spanish
A scene of the crowded interior of the Revolutionary Tribunal during the trial of Charlotte Corday for the murder of Jean Marat. Corday stands at the bar, her wrists in chains, as she confronts the three judges, grotesque figures -- a barber, a tailor...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Publishd. July 29th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793, Corday, Charlotte, 1768-1793, and France. Tribunal révolutionnaire.
Subject (Topic):
Assassination, History, and Trials (Political crimes and offenses)
A scene of the crowded interior of the Revolutionary Tribunal during the trial of Charlotte Corday for the murder of Jean Marat. Corday stands at the bar, her wrists in chains, as she confronts the three judges, grotesque figures -- a barber, a tailor...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Publishd. July 29th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793, Corday, Charlotte, 1768-1793, and France. Tribunal révolutionnaire.
Subject (Topic):
Assassination, History, and Trials (Political crimes and offenses)
