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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 November 1796]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A gallows separates the design into two compartments. A sign in the center reads "Roberspierre, Marat, Santerre." The crossbar reads "Held up to infamy and posterity." Another sign hangs from the left arm and reads "Paine's Rights of Man." The sign on the right side reads "Classical lectures on the Roman History.", The scene on the left half is labelled at the top "Old England" and depicts naval and commercial prosperity under the bright skies. Three columns labelled Virtue, Honor and Loyalty stand over the words British Constitution; at the base of the drawing are the words "is basis, the happiness of the people.", and The scene on the right half is labelled at the top "New France", and in contrast, all is death and destruction: cities in ruins, bodies hanging from gallows, a bloody guillotine along with other instruments of torture. Flowing from the guillotine into a shaft underground are discarded fragments: religion, pubk. credit, monarchy, laws, trade, honor, loyality, virtue, art ...
- Alternative Title:
- Things as they are
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 36.9 x 62.7 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., and Mounted on leaf 13 of volume 4 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Novr. 12th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Name):
- Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
- Subject (Topic):
- Democracy, Gallows, Guillotines (Punishment), Liberty cap, Revolutions, French, Ruins, Ships, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The contrast, or, Things as they are [graphic].
