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
At the center of the sheet stands John Bull, hands clasped in prayer, as Sheridan and Fox force the bread of liberty into his wide open mouth as they pick his pocket. On either side of the three stands a gallows and the Temple Bar. In each of the fo...
Alternative Title:
Sansculottes feeding Europe with the bread of liberty
Description:
Title from text in image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 12st [sic], 1793, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Girondists, Sansculottes, Liberty, Liberty cap, Popes, History, and Foreign relations
At the center of the sheet stands John Bull, hands clasped in prayer, as Sheridan and Fox force the bread of liberty into his wide open mouth as they pick his pocket. On either side of the three stands a gallows and the Temple Bar. In each of the fo...
Alternative Title:
Sansculottes feeding Europe with the bread of liberty
Description:
Title from text in image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 12st [sic], 1793, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Girondists, Sansculottes, Liberty, Liberty cap, Popes, History, and Foreign relations
