In this anti-Jacobin, pro-Girondist print, seven prisoners, in various postures of distress and exclamation are seated on stools in a prison cell. Each one wears a feathered Liberty cap and each is tied to the cell wall by a rope around his neck. The ...
Alternative Title:
Commissioners become hostages and French vermin in the German trap
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Aitken, No. 14 Castle Street, Leicester Fields, London
Subject (Geographic):
France and Austria
Subject (Name):
Dumouriez, Charles François Du Périer, 1739-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Girondists, Prisons, Cells (Rooms & spaces), Prisoners, Liberty cap, History, Campaigns, Foreign public opinion, British, and Foreign relations
"A tailor on his raised shop-board (right) kneels in terror at the apparition of an emaciated corpse-like man and a fat pig with its throat cut standing on its hind-legs. Beneath the shop-board the head and shoulders of the Devil emerge from the flame...
"The mob active in the foreground throwing stones, beating sticks and setting fire to the surrounding buildings of the prison; men run to the left holding a flag with "No Popery"; a woman in ragged clothes in central foreground holding up large rocks,...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd the 1st of Augst. 1780, by Fielding & Walker, Pater Noster Row
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
King's Bench Prison (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Gordon Riots, 1780, Prisons, Fires, Vandalism, Riots, Arson, Crowds, and Flags
"The mob active in the foreground throwing stones, beating sticks and setting fire to the surrounding buildings of the prison; men run to the left holding a flag with "No Popery"; a woman in ragged clothes in central foreground holding up large rocks,...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd the 1st of Augst. 1780, by Fielding & Walker, Pater Noster Row
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
King's Bench Prison (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Gordon Riots, 1780, Prisons, Fires, Vandalism, Riots, Arson, Crowds, and Flags
