Sans-culottes feeding Europe with the bread of liberty [graphic].

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Title: Sans-culottes feeding Europe with the bread of liberty [graphic].
Alternative Title: Sansculottes feeding Europe with the bread of liberty
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,--1751-1816--Caricatures and cartoons.
Copyright Date: [12 January 1793]
Abstract: At the center of the sheet stands John Bull, hands clasped in prayer, as Sheridan and Fox force the bread of liberty into his wide open mouth as they pick his pocket. On either side of the three stands a gallows and the Temple Bar. In each of the four corners in similar scenes, labelled clockwise from upper left, Holland, Savoy, German & Prussia, red-capped French sansculottes try to force the bread of liberty down recognizable national stereotypes from these four nations as they loot the terrfied citizens.
Description: Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Title from text in image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 30.4 x 36.5 cm, on sheet 31 x 38 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1793.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1793.
Subject (Geographic): France--Foreign relations--1789-1815.
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,--1751-1816--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic): Girondists--Caricatures and cartoons.
John Bull (Symbolic character)--Caricatures and cartoons.
Liberty cap.
Liberty.
Popes.
Sansculottes--Caricatures and cartoons.

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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8290
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 165