A republican belle - a picture of Paris for 1794 / IC., British Cartoon Print

Print shows an old woman, a sansculotte, in ragged dress, her arms folded across her chest, holding a pistol in one hand, which she fires at a man lying on the ground, and a dagger in the other. There is a skull and crossbones design on her garment, she wears a miniature guillotine hanging from her neck, and claws are showing through her shoes. At a tavern in the background, men are smoking pipes and bowling with skulls beneath a sign showing the severed and bleeding head of Louis XVI and from which a naked body hangs.

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8436

de Vinck, 6114

Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).

Exhibited: "Representing Revolution : French & British Images, 1789-1804" at the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, Sept. 15-Nov. 1, 1989.

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1800 - 1900

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