La France reçoit des trois ordres les voeux de toutes la nation et les...
Allegory showing France as a woman receiving from the three estates (clergyman, nobleman, and peasant) the wishes of the nation and presenting them to King Louis XVI and Jacques Necker, who was recalled to offi... More
Pal sangué Mr. l'Prieur v'la l'coup
Print with two scenes, one labeled "Le jeu de hazard" shows a meeting between the clergy, nobility, and the working class; the other labeled "Le goute patriotique" shows members of the three estates dining toge... More
L'accord parfait - A painting of three men in period clothing
Print shows three men representing the nobility, the clergy, and the third estate playing musical instruments. The nobleman, on the left, is playing a bagpipe, the cleric, on the right, is playing a recorder an... More
"Rosine! Rosine! Ma chère Rosine! Je jure que je t'adore"
Print shows an abbé rushing into the bedroom of "Rosine" professing his love for her, the woman (possibly intended to be a caricature of Marie Antoinette) stands to receive him with open arms, saying "Non, non,... More
Reveil du tiers etat - A drawing of a man being taken to the ground
Print shows a nobleman and a clergyman reacting with horror as a member of the Third Estate awakens, throws off the chains of bondage, and reaches for a rifle. The destruction of the Bastille is taking place in... More
Alphabeth de la Bourbonnoise - Public domain dedication image
Print shows nude female figure forming the letters of the alphabet. Irregularly trimmed within plate mark. Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress).
Portrait d'apres nature du Sr. Harné natif de Dôle en Franche Comté Gr...
Print shows Sr. Harné, a grenadier in the French Guards, and Sr. Humbert, leaders, respectively, of the first and second assaults on the Bastille, 14 July 1789, full-length portrait, standing, facing each other... More
Patience Margot j'auront bientot 3 fois 8
Cartoon about the French Revolution showing man seated next to menu 'Desires for 1790,' which lists price of bread, meat, and wine as 8 each. Picture on the wall is called reunion of the three orders, and the w... More
Nouvelle place de la Bastille - A drawing of a man holding a baby in f...
Cartoon shows Louis XVI standing on a pedestal with one foot on the hydra of despotism(?) from which five of seven heads have been severed; on the left, a clergyman offers him a gold coin, and on the right, a S... More
Il faut faire 3 choses - A drawing of three men standing next to each ...
Print shows figures of the estates general; a member of the clergy and a nobleman each place a hand on short pillar labeled "Je tien mon pied de bœuf"; a peasant, representing the third estate, places both of h... More
Supplice de Foulon a la Place de Grève, le 23 Juillet 1789 Prieur inv....
Print shows the hanging of Joseph-François Foullon in the Place de l'Hôtel-de-ville, Paris. Plate from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. Paris, chez Auber, 1804, no. 21.
La Nation française assisteé de Mr. De la Fayette terrasse le despotis...
Marquis de Lafayette assisting the French nation (Marie) trampling figure in sarcophagus with wings and hair of snakes while nude figure is attached by serpents. Possibly purchased by George IV from William Ho... More
Quand ce ra la Poule au Pot - A drawing of a man holding a bird in his...
Print shows a poor old man sliding a chicken onto a long spit. Trimmed within plate mark. de Vinck, 2890 Blum, 27 Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress).
![[3 orders proceeding to Versailles, May 1789]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMjEvMy1vcmRlcnMtcHJvY2VlZGluZy10by12ZXJzYWlsbGVzLW1heS0xNzg5LTVjZjNiZi0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/28/webp "[3 orders proceeding to Versailles, May 1789]")
[3 orders proceeding to Versailles, May 1789]
Print shows ornate carriage in which are riding well-dressed people with horns growing out of their heads. The carriage is drawn by two horned deer; standing on a platform at the rear is a women holding a baton... More
La coup des bois - A drawing of a man falling off a horse
Print shows a member of the Third Estate, possibly a woman, kneeling on top of a fallen friar, cutting wooden branches or horns from his head. Caption continues: Quel besogne, Grand Dieu ni moi ni mes petits e... More
Fraternité des Soldats de la Garde Prisienne des Dragons et du Regimen...
Cartoon about the French Revolution. Title translated: The fraternity of soldiers of the Parisienne Guard, the Dragoons, and the Regiment of Flanders with the body guards at the time of their arrival in Paris ... More
![L'espoir de la France / N. Trevisiani del. ; Verité sulpsit [sic].](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMTcvbGVzcG9pci1kZS1sYS1mcmFuY2Utbi10cmV2aXNpYW5pLWRlbC12ZXJpdGUtc3VscHNpdC1zaWMtMjkwYTY2LTEwMjQuanBn/40/44/webp "L'espoir de la France / N. Trevisiani del. ; Verité sulpsit [sic].")
L'espoir de la France / N. Trevisiani del. ; Verité sulpsit [sic].
Allegorical print showing Father Time parting the stormy skies of recent days to reveal Louis XVI eagerly accepting the truth offered by Justice and the arrival of Jacques Necker, recalled on 16 July 1789, as F... More
Trois tetes sous l'meme bonnet - A painting of a man sitting in front ...
Print shows a neatly dressed man sitting on a bundle surrounded by implements of the Third Estate and holding a large triangle topped with a liberty cap, within the triangle are images of a cleric, an aristocra... More
Journée memorable du 6 Octobre 1789
Print shows members of the Gardes du Corps who had been disarmed, joined by the National Guard, and the market-women of Paris who had marched on Versailles in the preceding days, now making the return trip to P... More
Le Souhait accompli v'la comme j'avions toujours désiré que ça fut.
Cartoon showing three men representing the three estates (clergyman, nobleman, and peasant) embracing and standing on red, white, and blue sheets marked "haine," "grandeurs," and "benefices." (National Assembly... More
Nom de MM les deputes de la ville de Paris, a l'Assemblée National
Print shows the deputies from Paris to the National Assembly aboard a large, ornate carriage being drawn by a bull, lion, sheep, and a snake; ahead of them, leading the procession, are three female figures, one... More
Par moy vous êtes tous freres - A black and white drawing of a man hol...
Print shows on the right, a woman, "la réligion" (possibly representing the Virgin Mary), labeled no. 1, standing, holding a cross illuminated by the sun, on the left, a cluster of figures includes an angel-lik... More
Le mea culpa du Prince Lambesc -- sans restitution point de salut
Print shows three men representing the nobility, the clergy, and the third estate meeting beneath a tree against which is sitting Prince de Lambesc, while workmen demolish the Bastille in the background. May sy... More
Reveil du Tiers Etat, ma feinte, il doit tems que je me revillise, car...
Clergyman and aristocrat recoiling from figure representing Third Estate, who is picking up chains and guns; storming of the Bastille in background.
Honneurs rendus à la Pauvreté en l'Eglise de St. Jacques de la Boucher...
Print shows draperies being hung on the walls of Church of St. Jacques de la Boucherie as a crowd of working class men, women, and children, many carrying torches, accompany a coffin carried by two men during a... More
J'suis du Tiers-ètat - A drawing of a man holding a glass of wine
Print shows a cobbler, representing the Third Estate, walking to the right, holding up a bottle and a glass. Trimmed within plate mark. Possibly purchased by George IV from William Holland in 1790. Source: Kat... More
Allons plus de distinction ce malheur commun nous rend égaux
Print shows a member of the aristocracy and a member of the Third Estate embracing in a courtyard, they both wear the horns of cuckoldry which they consider a common misery among all classes; a woman leaning ov... More
Frontispiece to Reflections on the French revolution, British Cartoon ...
Print shows Edmund Burke on bended knee as though proposing to a vision which appears before him of Marie Antoinette, while a cherub touches his head with a firebrand emitting the sparks of romance. Includes e... More
Menagerie nationale - A drawing of a group of people standing in front...
Print shows a harlequin standing on a makeshift stage with three cages on it containing members of the clergy and the nobility, and flying a banner "Collection d'Animaux Feroces et Traitres". The first cage is ... More
Le pied de néz - dedié aux aristocrates
Print shows two angels, one standing on a globe and holding a sword, the other, as Fame, soaring above at right, holds a laurel crown and blows a horn; in the foreground, blown over by the force of the angels, ... More
Le maitre de danse des aristocrates, allons donc l'Abbe cochon en mesu...
Print shows a member of the Third Estate, with a turkey-cock at his side, beating a drum and wielding a whip to make dance a pig dressed as an abbot and a dog dressed in Spanish clothing. de Vinck, 3677 Blum, ... More
Don Dismallo running the literary gantlet, British Cartoon Print
Print shows Edmund Burke in fools dress receiving lashes on his bare back as he runs a gauntlet of his peers which also includes Justice holding a sword, and Liberty, with staff topped with a liberty cap, who h... More
Anecdote arrivée á Louis XVI, quelques jours aprés sa residence á Pari...
Scene in Paris plaza between King Louis XVI and a boy begging for money. The boy calls the king Monsieur le Chevalier but is directed to call him "l'aine de la famille" [family elder] by another man in the stre... More
Entrée des Fédérés au Champ de Mars
Public domain scan of 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
![Cela ne se dit pas mais cela se devine / AV [monogram].](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDQvY2VsYS1uZS1zZS1kaXQtcGFzLW1haXMtY2VsYS1zZS1kZXZpbmUtYXYtbW9ub2dyYW0tNzMyYTFiLTEwMjQuanBn/40/62/webp "Cela ne se dit pas mais cela se devine / AV [monogram].")
Cela ne se dit pas mais cela se devine / AV [monogram].
Print shows an aristocratic-looking couple in a street or courtyard. The woman is standing, facing front, next to a wall, urinating beneath her dress. She holds the hat, umbrella, and walking stick (emblems of ... More
Smelling out a rat; or the atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his ...
Print shows Richard Price seated at a desk, he turns to look over his right shoulder at a vision of an enormous Edmund Burke, his spectacles, nose, and hands emerge from the haze, a crown in one hand and a cros... More
Le Pied de nez ou l'aristocratie ecrasée
Aristocrat with crown, clergy with long noses, triumphant figures of the Republic, destruction of the aristocracy.
Le corps Aristocratique sous la figure d'une femme expirant dans les b...
Print shows a plainly-dressed female figure dying in the arms of a man, representing the nobility, as two other men, one checking her pulse, stand nearby.
Le concert L'essentielle est d'accorder nos instruments pour que l'har...
Print shows three men playing musical instruments; they represent the clergy, the aristocracy, and the third estate. Trimmed within plate. de Vinck, 2050/2051 Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection... More
Le demenagement du clergé J'ai perdu mes benefices, rien n'égale ma do...
Print shows a group of ecclesiastical figures departing a church with what remains of their belongings (following the November 1789 decree by the National Assembly regarding church property); at the center of t... More
Les moines aprenant à faire l'exercise
Cartoon showing four men, monks, wearing the uniform of the National Guard marching in a disorderly manner. Caption continues: ...avec de la patience nous en viendrons about et avec le temps nous marcherons com... More
La visite du camp par les commissaires aristocrates
Print shows an aristocrat and a clergyman at a military camp to inspect the troops are confronted by three jeering soldiers. de Vinck, 3682 Blum, 528 Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library... More
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 ano... More
Arbre de la liberté - A black and white drawing of a group of people
Public domain photo of French art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Assemblée nationale, abandon de tous les privileges, à Versailles scea...
Print shows the Assemblée nationale meeting in a large room with amphitheater seating as members of the clergy and the nobility come forward to renounce their priviledges. No. 4 from the series "Principales Jo... More
Chute prochaine de la fille a Target
Print shows a hay wagon driven by a monk behind three horses, "la Guerre, la Bangueroute et un Marie Jacobin," who are harassed by "Jokais" of the constitution, "la Famine, la Rage, le Sacrilége, le Désespoir, ... More
Jean Paul Marat, né à Genève l'an 1743, député du dépt. de Paris à la ...
Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "Representing Revolution : French & British Images, 1789-1804" at the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachuset... More
Enjambée de la sainte famille des Thuilleries à Montmidy
Print shows Marie Antoinette taking an enormous step from the rooftop of the Tuileries Palace in Paris to Montmédy, she is holding the royal scepter, from which the tip has broken off, in her right hand, Louis ... More
L'entreé-franche - je me suis ruine pour l'en gresser - la fin du comp...
Print shows Louis XVI as a pig with fish on his head forming the horns of cuckoldry, on a hind leg is a tether held by a man of the Third Estate. de Vinck, 3989 Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collecti... More
Ha je seront ben content quand j'aurons tous ces papiers la - le treso...
Print shows a cleric, an aristocrat, and a member of the Third Estate who is pulling on a rope tied to a bundle of papers including the "Nouvelle Constitution" and "Vœux de la Nation" which are held aloft by a ... More
Mirabeau pere du peuple / Lacaille sculp cit.
Print shows Mirabeau, bust portrait, left profile, in medallion. Purchase; Denenberg Fine Arts; 1984; (DLC/PP-1984:180). Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress).
Bréf du Pape en 1791 - A cartoon of a man in a blue coat and hat
Print shows a member of the Third Estate, with cockade on his hat and a big smile, using a Papal letter to clean himself after defecating on papers of Le Clerc de Juigné on the ground; Abbé Royou, with glass, a... More
Epouventail de la nation - A drawing of a man standing in a field
Print shows an effigy of the marquis de Lafayette as the scarecrow of the nation (upper torso on a post stuck in tall grass on a river bank at the border, wearing military uniform, brandishing a sword) attempti... More
L'Attaque de la constitution - A painting of a group of people on a be...
Cartoon showing clergy, nobility, and fugitive counterrevolutionaries, carrying flags labeled "Vive la noblesse et le Clerge", "Lettre Pastorale", and "Voincre ou Courir", attacking a rock, identified as the "C... More
Frederick William - L'enjambee imperiale
Print shows Catherine II, Empress of Russia, bare-breasted, holding a scepter and sphere, taking a large step from a piece of land on the right labeled "Russie" to a crescent moon atop a steeple or minaret labe... More
Le plat a barbe Lillois - A drawing of a group of people standing arou...
Print shows a barber using a bombshell as a dish, shaving customers in a city street. de Vinck, 4530 (DLC/PP-1921:R2.121). Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress).
L'Ordre et la marche des puissances coalisees contre la France / compo...
Print shows an allegorical female figure riding in a chariot drawn by mules with the crowned heads of kings of various European countries; it is following three hags leading the way to the temple of folly in th... More
La reine à la conciergerie / Tiré du Cabinet de Mr. l'Abbé Carron ; Pr...
Print shows Marie Antoinette, head-and-shoulders portrait, turned to the right, facing front, in a prison cell at the Conciergerie. Trimmed to within plate mark. de Vinck, 541 Exhibited: "Representing Revoluti... More
French liberty, British Cartoon Print, engraving, Library of Congress
Print shows, on the right "Liberty is torn from her Temple by a hired band of Ruffians bound & going to be Sacrificed to the rage of these Ignorant People; ..." and on the left, artists and artisans, a mother w... More
Compulsion pour ces gens que n'attend pas la libertie / TC.
Print shows a tattered group of soldiers, one with peg leg, following a cart drawn by hooded executioners; chains, an axe, and a gibbet are visible among the items in the cart. On the far right, a pile of dead ... More
French happiness - English misery / IC.
Print shows, on the left, four ragged and starving sansculottes fighting over a frog, a cat has dropped dead at their feet, and scenes of death in the background; on the right, a scene in an English tavern with... More
Vue de la montagne elevée au champ de la reunion
Print shows the Festival of the Supreme Being, inspired by Robespierre, planned by Jacques Louis David, to commemorate the second year of the Republic; a female figure, representing France, riding on a cart wit... More
M.M.J. Robespierre Député de l'Artois, à l'Assemblée Nationale en 1789...
Print shows Maximilien Robespierre, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile, in oval. de Vinck, 6533 Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "Representing Revolu... More
La grande aiguiserie royale de poignards Anglais
Print shows George III, identified as "Georges Dandin", inside a large wheel driving a grinding stone at which stands William Pitt sharpening a knife. Caption continues: Le fameux Ministre Pitt aiguisant les p... More
Héroïsme des marins qui montoient le vaisseau Le Vengeur, le 3 juin 17...
Print shows the sinking of the vessel Vengeur. Plate from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. Paris, chez Auber, 1804, no. 99.
L'Intérieur du comité révolutionnaire. Scène derniere
Print shows two men pointing out others among a group of revolutionaries to be arrested, perhaps as a backlash to the reign of terror instigated by Robespierre and his followers. Overlooking the scene from a sh... More
Le maitre de danse Brabancon faisant repeter au petit Condé le pas d'a...
Public domain image of an engraving, male portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
![Pariser poisarden / C. Katz, [s. or f.]c.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTIvMDMvcGFyaXNlci1wb2lzYXJkZW4tYy1rYXR6LXMtb3ItZmMtY2ZjZWIwLTEwMjQuanBn/40/50/webp "Pariser poisarden / C. Katz, [s. or f.]c.")
Pariser poisarden / C. Katz, [s. or f.]c.
Satire on revolutionaries. Possibly by Cornelis Katz. Purchase; Kunsthandel Antiquariaat Sothmann; 1985; (DLC/PP-1985:398).
L'Intérieur du comité révolutionnaire. Scène derniere
Print shows two men pointing out others among a group of revolutionaries to be arrested, perhaps as a backlash to the reign of terror instigated by Robespierre and his followers. Overlooking the scene from a sh... More
Fouquier-Thinville jugé par le tribunal révolutionnaire, le 12 Floréal...
Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville on trial before the Revolutionary Tribunal in the third year of the Republic. Plate from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. Paris, chez A... More
Maria Antoinette, Queen of France / Leney sc.
Print shows Marie Antoinette, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing a cameo necklace and a hat with feathers or feathers in her hair; in oval medallion. Trimmed to within plate mark. Lacking publication ... More
Papiers monnoies et autres de la Republique Française / gravé par I. H...
Print shows a trompe-l'oeil presentation of many French revolutionary assignats in various demoninations, issued between 1789 and 1795. Paper is watermarked, but difficult to distinguish.
![[Du pain et la constitution de LXXXXIII] / dessiné par C. Monnet ; gravé par Helman, l'an 5e, de la R.F.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDQvZHUtcGFpbi1ldC1sYS1jb25zdGl0dXRpb24tZGUtbHh4eHhpaWktZGVzc2luZS1wYXItYy1tb25uZXQtZ3JhdmUtcGFyLWhlbG1hbi0wOGM2MjYtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/29/webp "[Du pain et la constitution de LXXXXIII] / dessiné par C. Monnet ; gravé par Helman, l'an 5e, de la R.F.")
[Du pain et la constitution de LXXXXIII] / dessiné par C. Monnet ; gra...
Print shows the Assemblée nationale législative meeting in a large room crowded with French citizens, many of them armed with swords and pikes, one holding aloft a victim's head on a pike, another firing a rifl... More
L'Anarchiste. Je les trompe tous deux / Son. Petit, peintre, sculpsit.
Two faced figure of anarchist deceiving figures representing Republicans and Jacobins.
Le traité de paix avec Rome - baisez ca papa, et faite pate de velour ...
Print shows on the left, a cat, representing Pope Pius VI, and on the right, a rooster, representing Napoleon I, holding a bundle of dried twigs and telling the cat to retract its claws, resulting in the Treaty... More
Jérome Pétion, Député aux états généraux de 1789, Maire de Paris en 17...
Print shows Jérôme Pétion, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right, in medallion above frieze depicting "Pétion porté en triomphe à la fête des Suisses de Chateau-Vieux", showing him riding on a huge... More
La chose impossible, ou la commission des finances telle quil la faudr...
Print shows four bare-bottomed men, the ministers of finances, sitting around a table restoring their good health on the produce of other nations; as they consume the "Eau de la Plata" and "Eau du Sénégal," the... More
Néker ministre d'état et directeur général des finances en 1788, minis...
Print shows Jacques Necker, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, in medallion above a frieze depicting a violent confrontation between soldiers and citizens on July 12, 1789. Printed below image: * l'An ... More
Epoque du 30 Floreal l'an 5 de la République Française
Print shows on the left, a female figure representing the Republic of France drawing a slip of paper from an urn labeled "Directoire de la République Francaise" with Etienne-François-Louis-Honoré Le Tourneur's ... More
Le meâ culpâ du Pape / S. L'amerique inv. sculp.
Print shows Pope Pius VI on his knees being reprimanded by God, in the form of a bird, after giving up art treasures as a result of the Treaty of Tolentino. de Vinck, 6899 Forms part of: French Political Carto... More
Ah! s'il y voyoit! / Vincent ino. et del. ; Commarieux sculpt.
Print shows two fashionably dressed women walking on a country road, one is carrying a purse on her left hand; they ignore a "blind" beggar with a small dog on a leash and holding a cup and stick in right hand.... More
The French Mahomet, British Cartoon Print
Print shows a hunchback named La Reveilliere La Paux standing upon the Republican calendar while supporting symbols of France in one hand and containing it with an iron sceptor in the other hand as Count Lazare... More
Michel Le Pelletier de St. Fargeau, président a mortier au parlement d...
Print shows Michel Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile, in medallion above frieze depicting his assassination in a restaurant in the Palais Royal. Printed below image: * l'A... More
Le Boureau / Js. Gy. d. & ft., British Cartoon Print, James Gillray
Cartoon shows George Tierney dressed as an executioner standing next to a guillotine with a crowd of liberty-capped citizens in the background. One of a series of twelve: French Habits, No. 6. Forms part of: Br... More
C.G. Lamoignon de Malesherbes - né a Paris le 6 Décembre 1721 ; mort l...
Print shows the apotheosis of Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, bust portrait, left profile among clouds above allegorical scene with a sarcophagus on which is a reclining female figure holding an... More
New morality; or The promis'd installment of the high-priest of the Th...
Print shows French politician and Theophilanthropist Louis Marie la Révellière-Lépaux standing on a three-legged stool perched upon a stone dais reading Religion de la N[ature] to surrounding caricatures of peo... More
Represantant d'une grande nation / J. Cooke, sculpt., 40 Howland St.
"A grotesque monster, nude and hairy, representing the Constitution of the Year III, stands against the trunk of L'Arbre de Liberté (right) with upraised hands. The tree, Emblême de l'Arbre de Connoissance, has... More
Bonaparte, premier consul de la Republique Française -- revue du quint...
Print shows Napoleon Bonaparte, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, in medallion above scene depicting troop review. Déposé à la Bibliotheque Nle. le 29 Thermidor An X. Trimmed to within plate mark. de V... More
Attaque de la convention nationale ; journée mémorable du 13 vendémiai...
Print shows battle scene on Paris street during the attack on the National Convention. Plate from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. Paris, chez Auber, 1804, no. 129. de ... More
![[Aristocrats digging the Champ-de-Mars]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTIvMDQvYXJpc3RvY3JhdHMtZGlnZ2luZy10aGUtY2hhbXAtZGUtbWFycy1jMTRkNDEtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/27/webp "[Aristocrats digging the Champ-de-Mars]")
[Aristocrats digging the Champ-de-Mars]
Print shows well-dressed aristocratic women, children, some men, and members of the clergy digging and hauling soil in wheelbarrows in a effort to transform the Champ-de-Mars into a suitable place for the festi... More
A faut esperer q'eu se jeu la finira bentot
Print shows the nobility and the clergy, representing the estates general, riding on the back of a man representing the working class, or third estate; the man is bent under their weight and supports himself by... More
The near in blood, the nearer bloody
Print shows the Duke of Orleans dressed as a ragged sansculotte, holding an axe over the head of Louis XVI which rests on a chopping block, while Marie Antoinette pleads for him to show a "touch of pity."
Oup...oup...ça n'ira pas Ah! ça ira...ça ira. Les aristocrates a la ra...
Print shows Maximilien Robespierre playing a fiddle and dancing with a small dog, identified as Jean-Lambert Tallien, dancing to the music.
Par autorisation de M. Le Maire de la ville de Rouen. Le Sieur Bollé, ...
Text-only broadside announcing a balloon ascension at the Place de la Cathd́rale, Rouen, France. Tissandier collection.
La Romaine aristocratique - A drawing of a man in a green outfit
Print shows a monstrous figure holding a scale weighing a member of the Third Estate; in the background a plump clergyman and a nobleman walk away with a large pig between them. de Vinck, 2749 Blum, 116 Forms ... More
Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus
Print shows the Prince de Condé as Don Quixote on a white horse and vicomte de Mirabeau (Mirabeau Tonneau) as Sancho Panza riding on a barrel-shaped ass on wheels, surrounded by a ragged group of counterrevolut... More
Allegorie dèdiè au tiers etat - A drawing of a group of men standing n...
Print shows an allegorical scene with a member of the nobility and a member of the clergy, representing the estates general, helping to hold aloft a large heart-shaped frame, which rests on the back of a man re... More
Vive le roi, vive la nation J'savois ben qu'jaurions not tour.
Print shows a well-dressed peasant woman nursing an infant, riding on the back of a noblewoman who is holding onto the shoulders of a nun, representing the clergy. This cartoon presents a realingment of the Est... More
Quel bonheur de retrouver ce que l'on aime
Print shows a line of monks emerging from a monastery and a line of nuns emerging from a convent, at center is a citizen, wearing a cockade on his hat, getting married to a nun, on the left two married couples,... More
George the IIId, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland / Pollard s...
Print shows King George III, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile, wearing armor and a laurel wreath; in oval. Engraved for Murray's History of the American War. Illus. in: An impartial history of the pr... More