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1. A full and true account of the surprising trial and condemnation of his most Christian Majesty Louis XVI ...

Published / Created:: [1793]
Call Number:: File 82 793F+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: text
Description:: Caption title., The woodcut shows a man under the guillotine with the executioner's hand on the rope ready to release the blade., Not in ESTC., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:: Printed and sold by S. White
Subject (Geographic):: France
Subject (Name):: Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793 and France. Convention nationale.
Subject (Topic):: History, Executions, and Guillotines (Punishment)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A full and true account of the surprising trial and condemnation of his most Christian Majesty Louis XVI ...

2. A hint to the blind & foolish, or The Bourbon dynasty in danger! [graphic]

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:: [10 March 1823]
Call Number:: 823.03.10.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "In a wheeled car, Louis XVIII careers down a wooden track (as on the Montagnes Russes in Paris), laid on a steep grass slope, towards a monster formed of a guillotine, from which diabolical talons extend, ready to clutch him. The car is partly throne, partly bath-chair; the King has the usual swollen flannelled legs and wears an old-fashioned court-suit. He is blindfolded by a fool's cap with a long peak which streams behind him, showing the rapidity of the descent. In his right hand he holds out a spluttering firebrand, or Holy Candle, in the left is a sword with a serrated blade inscribed Sword of Justice, to which heavy fetters are attached. On the right of the track is a wide doorway, inscribed Chamber of Deputies, whence soldiers with fixed bayonets are pouring out. The two foremost drag between them a deputy, Manuel. The King turns his head to the right, shouting: War! War! war! war with Spain is indispensable. We will carry our measures at home & abroad with the point of the Bayonet, The Bourbons must be absolute monarchs, the people must be slaves!! His car is pushed behind by a band of simian Frenchmen, having the legs of apes, in court-dress with orders, wearing fool's caps like that of the King, the two foremost having their faces completely covered with the caps. The first pair, evidently Villèle and Chateaubriand, shout War! war! war! and War! war! Vive l' Roi. Those behind shout Shove away Shattebrain [cf. BM Satires 12614]; this is a Glorious cause. Vive l' Roi. Manuel, dignified and determined, makes a speech: "Let others seek to debase the National character: they have no doubt a guilty interest in doing so: I will do every thing in my power to preserve it's virtue. I do not expect an act of Justice; it is to one of Vengence [sic] that I resign myself. Sent to this Chamber by the will of those who had the right to send me here, I shall only leave it through the Violence of those who have not the right to exclude me; and if this resolution on my part may draw on my head the gravest dangers, I console myself that the field of Liberty has sometimes been fertilized by generous blood." Soldiers (right) watch the ejection, their hands resting on the barrels of their muskets, the butt ends being on the ground. They differ from the ejectors in wearing bearskins in place of cocked hats, gaiters in place of jack-boots, and they have a flag inscribed National Guard. One (Mercier) says: We will not Obey the Order to expel M. Manuel. Comrades, what say you to the Right about? In the foreground (left) two ghosts emerge from clouds, looking up at the madly careering king. Napoleon, a profile bust portrait, says: Silly Bourbon! Remember the Consequences of my interfereing with Spai. Louis XVI, his neck hidden by cloud, holds out his decollated head; he wears a shirt patterned with fleur-de-lis. He says: O! Brother, Brother, be warned by my unhappy fate!! The guillotine-monster is topped by a cap of Liberty with two tricolour cockades for glaring saucer-eyes. The base of the cap forms a gaping mouth; from it issue the words: What are you at!! what are you a'rter!!! I am really surprised at your Blind Stupidity! My appearance Here, I assure you, is with the most friendly intentions, to warn you of your impending danger. But if you are bent upon your own destruction, why come along!! C'a [sic] ira c'a ira c'a ira."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Hint to the blind and foolish and Bourbon dynasty in danger!
Description:: Title from caption below image. and Purchased with gift funds from Robert Pirie.
Publisher:: Pubd. March 10th 1823 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill, London
Subject (Name):: Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):: Guillotines (Punishment)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A hint to the blind & foolish, or The Bourbon dynasty in danger! [graphic]

3. Death of Louis XVI King of France who was beheaded Jany. 21st, 1793 [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1 September 1793]
Call Number:: 793.09.01.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of text., Two of the men with King Louis are tentatively identified as Santerre and Sanson., Four lines of verse inscribed below title: When on the scaffold he did say, receive my soul O God I pray. Wringing his hands with upcast e[yes], and Oh, forgive my enemies., and Printed on brittle, acid paper.
Publisher:: Published Septr. 1st, 1793 by J. Evans, Long Lane
Subject (Geographic):: France
Subject (Name):: Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793,, Santerre, Antoine-Joseph, 1752-1809., and Sanson, Charles Henri, 1738- .
Subject (Topic):: Death and burial, History, Executions, Guillotines (Punishment), and Spectators
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Death of Louis XVI King of France who was beheaded Jany. 21st, 1793 [graphic].

4. Het committè van algemeen welzyn [graphic].

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1796]
Call Number:: Print00806
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Four grotesque men, all crippled or deformed, are in a row before a set of druggist's shelves headed 'Staats Apotheek'. Those on the extreme left and right stand, the others sit. A knock-kneed hunchback (left), smoking a long pipe, the smoke inscribed 'Hellebr . . .', holds a paper: 'Recipe'. A ragged and lame National Guard picks the pocket of his neighbour. Above the shelves, and forming the apex of the design, a fury, Discord, with snaky locks, leans from clouds, holding a flaming sword and looking down threateningly at the conference. On the top shelf are a 'Guillotine' and a bull, 'Phalaris', a block inscribed 'Menschen lief de' next a gallows, a demon. Below are bottles: 'Quint Ess: de Robespierr, Sel de Marat, Recipes en Assignaten [see British Museum Satires No. 8849], Rotten gift [poison for mice], Alb: Graec:' On the wall hang a sword and shackles. Text, 'Luke', xii. 26."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Artist identified as Hess and printmaker questionably identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Possibly published by Hannah Humphrey. See British Museum catalogue., One of twenty plates published as a bound set entitled: Hollandia regenerata., Plate numbered "2" in upper left corner., With: Letterpress explanation in French that includes appropriate texts from the Bible in Dutch and in English., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Pharmacies, interior -- Politics, French -- Politics, British -- Politics, Dutch., 1 print : etching ; sheet 272 x 220 mm., and Printed in red ink.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Pharmacists, Drugstores, Interiors, Pipes (Smoking), Crutches, Guillotines (Punishment), Gallows, Demons, Shackles, and Daggers & swords
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Het committè van algemeen welzyn [graphic].

5. John Bull's sacrifice to Janus a design for a peace offering to the Convention / [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: [17 March 1794]
Call Number:: Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:: Leaf 64. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A bull in the guillotine awaits the fall of the blade. The executioner is depicted as a skeleton with Lord Stanhope's face. The sacrifice is supervised by Lord Lansdowne (as Janus) in a throne behind an altar on which rests the Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights. The Duke of Grafton on the right sets fire to these documents while Dr. Priestley looks on.
Description:: Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., One of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition ..."; see British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 32.9 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 35.7 x 27.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 64 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:: Publd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain, France, and England
Subject (Name):: Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Subject (Topic):: John Bull (Symbolic character), Janus (Roman deity), Politics and government, Foreign relations, Altars, Guillotines (Punishment), Skeletons, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > John Bull's sacrifice to Janus a design for a peace offering to the Convention / [graphic]

6. John Bull's sacrifice to Janus a design for a peace offering to the Convention / [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: [17 March 1794]
Call Number:: Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Leaf 64. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A bull in the guillotine awaits the fall of the blade. The executioner is depicted as a skeleton with Lord Stanhope's face. The sacrifice is supervised by Lord Lansdowne (as Janus) in a throne behind an altar on which rests the Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights. The Duke of Grafton on the right sets fire to these documents while Dr. Priestley looks on.
Description:: Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., One of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition ..."; see British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on page 83 with one other print.
Publisher:: Publd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain, France, and England
Subject (Name):: Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Subject (Topic):: John Bull (Symbolic character), Janus (Roman deity), Politics and government, Foreign relations, Altars, Guillotines (Punishment), Skeletons, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > John Bull's sacrifice to Janus a design for a peace offering to the Convention / [graphic]

7. John Bull's sacrifice to Janus a design for a peace offering to the Convention / [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: [17 March 1794]
Call Number:: 794.03.17.07+ Impression 1
Collection Title:: Leaf 64. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A bull in the guillotine awaits the fall of the blade. The executioner is depicted as a skeleton with Lord Stanhope's face. The sacrifice is supervised by Lord Lansdowne (as Janus) in a throne behind an altar on which rests the Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights. The Duke of Grafton on the right sets fire to these documents while Dr. Priestley looks on.
Description:: Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., One of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition ..."; see British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 46 x 34 cm.
Publisher:: Publd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain, France, and England
Subject (Name):: Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Subject (Topic):: John Bull (Symbolic character), Janus (Roman deity), Politics and government, Foreign relations, Altars, Guillotines (Punishment), Skeletons, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > John Bull's sacrifice to Janus a design for a peace offering to the Convention / [graphic]

8. Rights of man alias French liberty alias entering volunteers for the republic [graphic]

Creator:: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:: [7 May 1791, that is 1793?]
Call Number:: 791.05.07.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Three grotesque French officers forceably recruit a gang of emaciated, terrified-looking Frenchman. Of the several men who have been thrown over the back of a horse, one has had a pole thrust into his posterior; at the top of the pole is a liberty cap. The wife and children of one man who has been tied to the back of the horse, cling in desperation to his ragged clothes, as they are dragged along behind him
Description:: Title from item., Publication year possibly an engraver's error for 1793 as the Republic was not proclaimed until 22 September 1792 and while the first execution by guillotine took place in April 1792, it was, early on, called La Louisette. See C.D. Hazen's French Revolution (1932), i., page 384 and British Museum catalogue v. 6, no. 7853., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: where may be seen a compleate model of the guilotine [sic], also the largest collection of caracaturs [sic] in the Kingdm., the head & hand of Count Streuenzee, &c. Admit. 1., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: F & P.
Publisher:: Pub. May 7, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):: France
Subject (Topic):: History, Foreign public opinion, British, Guillotines (Punishment), Liberty cap, and Starvation
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Rights of man alias French liberty alias entering volunteers for the republic [graphic]

9. The blood of the murdered crying for vengeance [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [16 February 1793]
Call Number:: 793.02.16.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: The head of Louis XVI lies on the platform at the base of a guillotine, his hands tied behind his back, blood pouring from the blade and his head. The swirls of blood ascend and swirl around the guillotine like clouds of smoke and etched in this cloud are a long speech pleading for justice from the British nation and beginning: Wither, O wither shall my blood ascend for Justice? My throne is seized on by my murderers ...
Description:: Title etched below image., Two lines of text above image: This exact representation of that instrument of French refinement in assassination, the guillotine, is submited to the "Gentlemen of the Phalanx" & other well-wishers to the King & Constitution of Great Britain, by their devoted servants at command, The Assassins of the King of France., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and bottom.
Publisher:: Pubd. Feby. 16th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):: France and Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793
Subject (Topic):: Death and burial, Decapitations, Executions, Guillotines (Punishment), History, and Foreign relations
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The blood of the murdered crying for vengeance [graphic]