A Paris belle [graphic] / Miss Mary Stokes delt.

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Title: A Paris belle [graphic] / Miss Mary Stokes delt.
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Copyright Date: [26 February 1794]
Abstract: "Design in an irregular oval. A woman (bust) glares fiercely to the left, her mouth closed and drawn down. Her cap and fichu are decked with tricolour ribbons, and in her cap is a dagger, point upward and dripping blood. Above the design: 'Des Tetes! - du Sang! - la Mort! - à la Lanterne! - à la Guillotine. - point de Reine! - Je suis la Dèesse de la Libertè [cf. BMSat 8350] - l'egalité! - que Londres soit brulê! - que Paris soit Libre!! - Vive la Guillotine! - '."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
Companion print to: "A Paris beau."
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; oval image 13.3 x 11.9 cm, on plate 25.0 x 17.3 cm, on sheet 34.6 x 24.7 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1794.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1794.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8431
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 179