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Ne craigné rien citoyen de Paris, la bulle et le Saint Piere nont rien a faire ici [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1789?]
Call Number:
789.00.00.04+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date from Minto Wilson's note a mat (removed)., Nine lines of text in two columns below image: Pie six par l'operation du belle esprit nayant pu obtenir de Joseph II ..., Two lines of caption above image: Un des artificers de monte Cavallo ayant laissé tomber ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Ne craigné rien citoyen de Paris, la bulle et le Saint Piere nont rien a faire ici [graphic].

2.
The frogs who wanted a king [graphic].

Published / Created:
published acording [sic] to act of Parliament, July 14, 1789.
Call Number:
789.07.14.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A stork, its head a likeness of Lafayette, stands on a rock depicted with the head of Louis XIV of France protruding from the left edge. He gazes at a crowd of frogs in various dramatic poses, some standing at attention. Opposite the stork is a stick with head of Bailly stuck on top, in his mouth a flag inscribed "Martial Law."
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Contemporary manuscript notes identifying the caricatured figures as Lafayette, Louis XVI, and Bailly.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834, and Bailly, Jean Sylvain, 1736-1793
Subject (Topic):
History
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The frogs who wanted a king [graphic].