Design in two compartments contrasting on the left the poverty and depravity of "French Liberty" with the opulence of the British on the right "British Slavery." The thin, ragged sansculotte with a liberty cap on his head, warms his bare, talon-like feet before a fire, while eating his dinner of raw onions. Behind him snails overflow his chamber pot; above the fireplace a "Map of French Conquests". At his feet a sword lies across a violin like a bow. He extolls the virtues of the National Assembly and new won liberties. In contrast on the right, an obese, red-faced Englishman sits in a luxurious room before a table laden with a tankard of hock and a large joint of beef. His shoes are slashed to relieve his bloated, gouty feet. A gold statute of Britannia adorns the wall above him. He curses his ministry for imposing taxes and starving the British people.
Alternative Title:
British slavery
Description:
Title etched below image. and Two images on one plate.
Subject (Geographic):
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Liberty, Poverty, Rugs., Taxation--France., Taxation--Great Britain., Taxes., and Wealth.
A gallows separates the design into two compartments. A sign in the center reads "Roberspierre, Marat, Santerre." The crossbar reads "Held up to infamy and posterity." Another sign hangs from the left arm and reads "Paine's Rights of Man." The sign on the right side reads "Classical lectures on the Roman History.", The scene on the left half is labelled at the top "Old England" and depicts naval and commercial prosperity under the bright skies. Three columns labelled Virtue, Honor and Loyalty stand over the words British Constitution; at the base of the drawing are the words "is basis, the happiness of the people.", and The scene on the right half is labelled at the top "New France", and in contrast, all is death and destruction: cities in ruins, bodies hanging from gallows, a bloody guillotine along with other instruments of torture. Flowing from the guillotine into a shaft underground are discarded fragments: religion, pubk. credit, monarchy, laws, trade, honor, loyality, virtue, art ...
Alternative Title:
Things as they are
Subject (Geographic):
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and Paine, Thomas,--1737-1809.--Rights of man.
Subject (Topic):
Democracy. , Gallows., Guillotines (Punishment), Liberty cap. , Revolutions--French., Ruins., and Ships.
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:
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 Title etched above image.
Subject (Geographic):
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Corday, Charlotte,--1768-1793--Caricatures and cartoons., France.--Tribunal révolutionnaire., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and Marat, Jean Paul,--1743-1793--Assassination.
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:
One line of text below title: Religion, justice, loyalty, & all the bugbears of unenlighten'd minds, farewell! and Title etched below image, left.
Subject (Geographic):
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and Louis--XVI,--King of France,--1754-1793--Death and burial.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy--France., Crowds--France., Fires., Guillotines (Punishment), Hangings (Executions), Liberty cap. , Revolutions--France., Sansculottes--Caricatures and cartoons., and Scales.
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:
"Price 2 sh. plain.", Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
J. Aitken, Castle Street, Leicester Square
Subject (Geographic):
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799
Subject (Name):
Aitken, James, -1802, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Bastille., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier,--marquis de,--1757-1834--Caricatures and cartoons., Louis--XVI,--King of France,--1754-1793--Caricatures and cartoons., Marie Antoinette,--Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France,--1755-1793--Caricatures and cartoons., Necker, Jacques,--1732-1804--Caricatures and cartoons., and Schwellenberg, Elizabeth Juliana,--ca 1728-1797--Caricatures and cartoons.
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 four corners in similar scenes, labelled clockwise from upper left, Holland, Savoy, German & Prussia, red-capped French sansculottes try to force the bread of liberty down recognizable national stereotypes from these four nations as they loot the terrfied citizens.
Alternative Title:
Sansculottes feeding Europe with the bread of liberty
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title from text in image.
Subject (Geographic):
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,--1751-1816--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic):
Girondists--Caricatures and cartoons., John Bull (Symbolic character)--Caricatures and cartoons., Liberty cap. , Liberty., Popes., and Sansculottes--Caricatures and cartoons.
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 sansculottes refreshing after the fatigues of the day and Family of sans-culottes refreshing after the fatigues of the day
Description:
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 Title etched below image.
Subject (Geographic):
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., Louis--XVI,--King of France,--1754-1793--Caricatures and cartoons., and Pétion, J.--(Jérôme),--1756-1794--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic):
Cannibalism. and Sansculottes--Caricatures and cartoons.