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A second Jean d'Arc, or, The assassination of Marat by Charlotte Cordé of Caen in Normandy on

Creator:
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:
[26 July 1793]
Call Number:
793.07.26.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Assassination of Marat by Charlotte Cordé of Caen in Normandy
Description:
Title from item., Two lines of text below title: Who, while he was villifying some of the more moderate men in the Convention ..., and Mounted to 28 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 26, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Corday, Charlotte, 1768-1793 and Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793
Subject (Topic):
Assassinations, Knives, and Assassination
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A second Jean d'Arc, or, The assassination of Marat by Charlotte Cordé of Caen in Normandy on Sunday, July 14, 1793 [graphic].

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The heroic Charlotte la Cordé upon her trial at the bar of the Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 July 1793]
Call Number:
793.07.29.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene of the crowded interior of the Revolutionary Tribunal during the trial of Charlotte Corday for the murder of Jean Marat. Corday stands at the bar, her wrists in chains, as she confronts the three judges, grotesque figures -- a barber, a tailor, and a butcher. Marat's body lies between them on a wooden bedstead, his blood stained shirt on a pike
Description:
Title etched above image., One line of quoted text below title: "The noble enthusiasm with which this woman met the charge, & the elevated disdain with which she treated the self created tribunal, struck the whole assembly with terror & astonishment.", and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge.
Publisher:
Publishd. July 29th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793, Corday, Charlotte, 1768-1793, and France. Tribunal révolutionnaire.
Subject (Topic):
Assassination, History, and Trials (Political crimes and offenses)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The heroic Charlotte la Cordé upon her trial at the bar of the Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris, July 17th, 1793 for having rid the world of that monster of atheism and murder the regicide Marat, whom she stabbed in a bath where he had retired on account of a leprosy with which Heaven had begun the punishment of his crimes / [graphic]