L'homme de la Cour 1791 ; L'homme du peuple 1789. [graphic]

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Title: L'homme de la Cour 1791 ; L'homme du peuple 1789. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Homme du peuple 1789
Published / Created: [1791?]
Publication Place: England?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Satire against Barnave as a Janus-headed figure, holding the civil list as a tied sack in his hand, with 3-line verse below."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from item.
"Janus" etched below image in lower left; "Brutus" etched below image in lower right.
Illustration from an unidentified book with another portion of an illustration on verso.
Text below image begins: Tantot froid, tantot chaud, tantot blanc ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Declaration of Rights of Man -- Mythology: reference to Janus -- Literature: allusion to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar -- Allusion to French Revolution.
Watermark (partial); probably fleur-de-lis in an oval frame.
With a stamp of Bibliotheca Lindesiana in lower right corner.
Provenance: Suckling; November 1958. From the library of James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of Crawford (1847-1913).
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20.4 x 12.6 cm, on sheet 26 x 19 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) France 1791
Book illustrations
Aquatints England 1791
Etchings England 1791
Material: etching and aquatint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): France
Subject (Name): Barnave, Antoine, 1761-1793
Subject (Topic): History
Foreign public opinion, British
Janus (Roman deity)
Bags
Subjects: Barnave, Antoine, 1761-1793 > Caricatures and cartoons
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799 > Foreign public opinion, British
Janus (Roman deity)
Bags
France > 1791
England > 1791
Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of, 1847-1913 > Ownership
Biblioteca Lindesiana > Stamp

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