Le tems donnant les cendres à la noblesse et au clergé

Print shows Father Time flying past an altar on which the privileges of the nobility and the clergy are being burned; he is annointing the forehead of one priest with the ashes of the consummed documents as another priest tries to pull him back, others, including a noble and a bishop, recoil in horror. Revolutionaries enter on the left. Includes a Latin verse "Misericordiæ domini! quia non sumus consumpti" from Lamentations 3:22, Misericordiæ domini! quia non sumus consumpti quia non defecerunt miserationed eius : It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed because his compassions fail not.

de Vinck, 3034
Blum, 16
(DLC/PP-1983:172.2).
Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress).