- 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]
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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 August 1789]
- Call Number:
- Drawer 789.08.03.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A cartoon illustrating the first reactions in England to the news of the fall of the Bastille. On the right, the radiant figure of Liberty sits enthroned on the ruins of the Bastille. Kneeling on one knee before her, Louis XVI holds up to her his crown; inscribed below him are the words "A repentant monarch." Following behind him are six figures in chains, each clearly identified: Orléans and Necker, Marie Antoinette, two German counselors, and a figure suggestive of Mrs. Schwellenberg. La Fayette and the ranks of the National Guard bring up the rear. All around them are cheering crowds
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., "Price 2 sh. plain.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Aug. 3d, 1789, by J. Aitken, N. 14 Castle Street, Leicester Fields
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Name):
- Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793, Necker, Jacques, 1732-1804, Schwellenberg, Elizabeth Juliana, ca 1728-1797, Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834, and Bastille.
- Subject (Topic):
- Liberty, History, and Foreign public opinion, British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The offering to Liberty [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [2 January 1793]
- Call Number:
- 793.01.02.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The head and shoulders of Fox (like Christian in 'The Pilgrim's Progress') emerge from a pool of liquid mire; he looks despairingly up and to the right, his (half-submerged) hands raised in supplication. On his back is a bundle inscribed 'Contents French Gold, French Loyalty, French Daggers [cf. BMSat 8285, &c.], And Crimes, more num'rous than the sands, upon the Ocean's shore.' His hat has fallen off, the tricolour cockade and motto 'Ca ira' are half submerged. His large club rises from the slough: 'Patriots Staff - i.e. Whig Club' [cf. BMSat 8987, &c.]. Before him floats an open book: 'Gospel of Liberty by the four Evangelists St Paine St Price St Priestly St Petion [see BMSat 8122] \ Fly to the Wrath to come." Fox says: "Help! Help! - will no kind Power lend a hand to deliver me ? - Oh! what will become of me ? - all my former Friends have forsaken me! - if I try to go on, I sink deeper in the Filth; & my feet are stuck so fast in the Mire, that I can not get back, 'tho I try; - Ah me! - this Burden upon my Back overwhelm's me, & presses me down! - I shall Rise no more! - I am lost for ever, & shall never see the Promis'd Land!!" From the slough a hill ascends up which a straight path leads to a fortified gateway in a castellated wall inscribed: 'Knock, & it shall be opened. The Straight Gate: or the way to the Patriots Paradise.' From it flies a flag of 'Libertas', surmounted with the cap of Liberty. Within the wall is a ladder slanting towards a waning moon. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Three lines of text from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress quoted to the right of title: "This miry slough is such a place as can not be mended ...", and Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jany. 2d, 1793, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804., Pétion, J. 1756-1794. (Jérôme),, and Price, RIchard, 1723-1791.
- Subject (Topic):
- History and Liberty cap
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The slough of despond vide The Patriot's Progress / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [14 April 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.04.14.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- On the right, John Bull, standing next to a broken anchor, raises his arms in despair saying, "'Tis lost! Irrecoverably lost!" Above his head, a demon flies away with a partially rolled up map of America while a Frenchman standing to his right offers him snuff as consolation. Behind the Frenchman, an angry Spaniard points to the rock of Gibraltar in the background and the exploding ships below it. On the far left, a Dutchman watches the scene in front of him
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 28 x 42 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Aprl. 14th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Gibraltar and Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Dutch, French, Spanish, History, Foreign relations, Anchors, Demons, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The times, anno 1783 [graphic].
15.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 February 1793]
- Call Number:
- 793.02.12.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A ragged sansculotte sits astride a lamp brackets high above a square where a crowd, all wearing bonnets-rouges and all watching the beheading of Louis XVI. He fiddles as he smiles down at the scene. Hanging below him from the same lamp post are two monks and a bishop, their hands bound. Further in the distance are more hung bodies and a cathedral in flames
- Alternative Title:
- Pinnacle of liberty
- Description:
- Title etched below image, left., One line of text below title: Religion, justice, loyalty, & all the bugbears of unenlighten'd minds, farewell!, and Mounted to 47 x 30 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 12th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and France.
- Subject (Name):
- Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793
- Subject (Topic):
- Death and burial, Sansculottes, History, Clergy, Crowds, Fires, Guillotines (Punishment), Hangings (Executions), Liberty cap, Revolutions, and Scales
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The zenith of French glory The pinnacle of liberty : religion, justice, loyalty, & all the bugbears of unenlighten'd minds, farewell! / [graphic]
16.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 September 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.09.20.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A thin, ragged group of sansculottes sit on corpses around a table and feast on a decapitated head; behind them and above them are piles of body parts. An old woman squats before a fire basting the body of child that has been lashed to a spit. Three small children sit on the floor before a tub filled with entrails. On the wall above the fireplace is a stick figure labelled 'Petion' ; he holds an axe in one hand and a decapitated head in the other. To the sideis another drawing of a headless man labelled "Lewis le Grand."
- Alternative Title:
- Family of sans-culottes refreshing after the fatigues of the day and Family of sansculottes refreshing after the fatigues of the day
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., An epigram in three columns etched on a separate plate, printed below title: Epigram extempore on seeing the above print. "Here as you see, and as 'tis known ..., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges of upper plate and bottom edge of lower plate.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Sepr. 20th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Name):
- Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793 and Pétion, J. 1756-1794 (Jérôme),
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Sansculottes, and Cannibalism
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Un petit soupèr a la parisiènne, or, A family of sans-culotts refreshing after the fatigues of the day [graphic].