A ragged sansculotte sits astride a lamp brackets high above a square where a crowd, all wearing bonnets-rouges and all watching the beheading of Louis XVI. He fiddles as he smiles down at the scene. Hanging below him from the same lamp post are two monks and a bishop, their hands bound. Further in the distance are more hung bodies and a cathedral in flames
Alternative Title:
Pinnacle of liberty
Description:
Title etched below image, left., One line of text below title: Religion, justice, loyalty, & all the bugbears of unenlighten'd minds, farewell!, and Mounted to 47 x 30 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 12th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Sansculottes, History, Clergy, Crowds, Fires, Guillotines (Punishment), Hangings (Executions), Liberty cap, Revolutions, and Scales
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Female dress, 1796 -- Male dress: spencers -- Walking staves.
"View of the Nave of St. Paul's, with the royal procession flanked by three lines of guards on either side, in front of the congregation on tiered stands."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Royal procession in St. Paul's on St. George's Day 1789
Description:
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Processions: thanksgiving procession, St. George's Day 1789 -- Beefeaters., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1, 1793, by B.B. Evans, Poultry, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Parades & processions, Interiors, Naves, Honor guards, and Spectators
"A lady sits on a garden seat in profile to the right, looking through a telescope placed on a small rectangular table. A grinning man standing beside her stares at her through a quizzing-glass. Among the shrubs in the background is a statue of a satyr whose expression is intended to reflect that of the man."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One of a series of 'Drolls.', and Temporary local subject terms: Young women -- Quizzing glasses -- Furniture: outdoor bench -- Satyrs.
Publisher:
Published 16th Decr. 1793, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Telescopes, Voyeurism, and Clothing & dress
A woman in a pink dress gazes expectantly at a man on the right of the print, whilst hitching up her apron to reveal a green underskirt by placing her hands on her hips. The man returns her gaze in profile with a disapproving expression, whilst clutching onto carrots and turnips in the crook of his right elbow and left hand. The woman has ginger hair, and wears a white bonnet with red ribbons, and the man wears a black hat
Alternative Title:
Will you give us a glass of gin
Description:
Title from dialogue etched below image., Leaf 13 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 19.9 x 14.7 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 4, 1793, by R. Dighton
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Gin, Occupations, Oysters, and Vegetables
A woman in a pink dress gazes expectantly at a man on the right of the print, whilst hitching up her apron to reveal a green underskirt by placing her hands on her hips. The man returns her gaze in profile with a disapproving expression, whilst clutching onto carrots and turnips in the crook of his right elbow and left hand. The woman has ginger hair, and wears a white bonnet with red ribbons, and the man wears a black hat
Alternative Title:
Will you give us a glass of gin
Description:
Title from dialogue etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 4, 1793, by R. Dighton
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Gin, Occupations, Oysters, and Vegetables
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following the imprint: ... where may be seen the completest collection of caricatures in Europe, also a correct model of the guillotine 6 feet high, admitt. 1 shilling., Temporary local subject terms: Weapons: daggers -- Gallows -- Poison -- Allusion to George IV -- Reference to sansculottes., and Mounted to 31 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. March 25, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to and within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement following the imprint: ... where may be seen the compleatest collection of caricatures in Europe. Also a correct model of the guillotine 6 feet high. Admittce 1 shilling., Temporary local subject terms: Military: officers -- Military uniforms: officers' uniform -- Interiors: officers' quarters -- Fireplaces -- Furniture: tables -- Chairs -- Lighting: candlesticks -- Medical: pill boxes -- Swords -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of an officer -- Military documents: reports -- Military orders -- Maps -- Reference to Coventry -- Newspapers: The Star -- Eyeglasses: quizzing glass., and Watermark: (partial) fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Pubd. Dec. 14, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"A drunken party; four men drinking heavily in a tavern, one with a cloth over his head, the others gathered round him, a fifth laid out asleep on a table at left; on a barrel at right a statue group of Charity, echoing the poses of the main figures; numerous empty bottles in the foreground; after the painting by Hogarth"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger, based on Hogarth's painting., Lettered on a coal scuttle at bottom left: 'SEG 3'., Printmaker and artist from British Museum online catalogue. See BM Registration number: 1882,0610.54., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on lower edge., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Oct. 1, 1793, by E. Walker, No. 7 Cornhill
