Collection Items
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe genius of France nursing her darling 1 print : engraving, color. | Cartoon showing France, a savage virago, dandling a tiny Napoleon seated on her hand and wearing a royal robe over his military dress. Above her head she holds a rattle with bells surmounted by a crown. She grins at the mannikin, singing: ... Beside her are her spear, dripping blood, and shield, with the bleeding head of Louis...
- Contributor: Gillray, James
- Date: 1804-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingTiddy-Doll, the great French gingerbread-baker; drawing out a new batch of kings - his man, Hopping Talley, mixing up the dough 1 print : etching, hand-colored. | Print shows Napoleon standing before a large "New French Oven for Imperial Gingerbread" drawing out a freshly baked kings labeled "Bavaria, Wirtembg, [and] Baden." On the left, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord mixes up another batch of dough.
- Contributor: Gillray, James
- Date: 1806
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Photo, Print, DrawingAlecto and her train, at the Gate of Pandaemonium or The recruiting sarjeant enlisting John-Bull, into the revolution service 1 print : hand-colored etching ; sheet 43 x 51 cm. | Print shows the Greek fury Alecto as a revolutionary with Richard Brinsley Sheridan on the fife and Richard Brinsley Sheridan on the drum standing in front of the Crown and Anchor Tavern offering French assignats to John Bull to "enter into my Company of Gentlemen Volunteers enlisted in the cause of Liberty."
- Contributor: Gillray, James
- Date: 1791-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe heroic Charlotte la Cordé, upon her trial, at the bar of the revolutionary tribunal of Paris, July 17, 1793 1 print : etching. | Print shows Charlotte Corday standing before the judges of the Revolutionary Tribunal with the body of Marat which lying between them. She responds to the Tribunal, "Wretches, I did not expect to appear before you - I always thought that I should be delivered up to the rage of the people, torn in pieces, & that my head, stuck...
- Contributor: Gillray, James
- Date: 1793-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe apotheosis of Hoche 1 print : hand-colored etching ; sheet 55 x 44 cm. | Print shows Lazare Hoche, French general of the Revolutionary Army, seated on a rainbow while playing a guillotine as a lyre as he ascends into a heaven in which the Jacobin Decalogue hangs in the middle and monsters, grotesque cherubs wearing Phrygian caps, and martyrs of the revolution surround him. Below, his...
- Contributor: Gillray, James
- Date: 1798-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingLe Boureau 1 print : etching, hand-colored. | Cartoon shows George Tierney dressed as an executioner standing next to a guillotine with a crowd of liberty-capped citizens in the background.
- Contributor: Gillray, James
- Date: 1798-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingNew morality; or The promis'd installment of the high-priest of the Theophilanthropes, with the homage of Leviathan and his suite 1 print : etching, hand-colored. | Print shows French politician and Theophilanthropist Louis Marie la Révellière-Lépaux standing on a three-legged stool perched upon a stone dais reading Religion de la N[ature] to surrounding caricatures of people and animals, including the Duke of Bedford as Leviathan.
- Contributor: Gillray, James
- Date: 1798
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Photo, Print, DrawingExit libertè a la Francois! or Buonaparte closing the farce of Egalité, at St. Cloud near Paris Novr. 10th 1799 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; 25.2 x 36 cm (sheet) | British satire shows Napoleon with his grenadiers driving the members of the Council of Five Hundred from the Orangery at St. Cloud at bayonet point. A drum is labeled "Vive la Liberte," and papers under foot read "Resignation des Directoires" and "Un liste de Membres du Conseil des Cinque Cents." On November...
- Contributor: Gillray, James
- Date: 1799-01-01