Arrestation de Mr. de Launay, gouverneur de la Bastille, le 14 Juillet 1789 Prieur inv. & del. ; Berthault sculp

Print shows a mob of revolutionaries after the storming the Bastille, when late in the afternoon, Governor De Launay, of the Bastille, is arrested and taken away, on the lower left, at the beginning of the Revolution in 1789.

Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. Paris, chez Auber, 1804, no. 17.
Purchase; J.R. Young, Washington, D.C.; rec'd. 1902 May 24.