The genius of France extirpating despotism tyranny & oppression from the face of the earth Or the royal warriors defeated, British Cartoon Print
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Cartoon shows a woman wearing a liberty cap, representing the genius of France, holding a cat-o'-nine-tails in one hand and the reins of a donkey in the other; on this donkey and another bucking in the background are several monarchs identified as Prussia, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Brunswick, Turkey, Spain, and, falling to the ground, China; Louis XVI lies on the ground beneath the donkey held by the woman; in the left foreground, sitting on the ground tearing her hair is Marie I of Portugal.
Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 8143
Exhibit loan 4161-L.
Print contains some erasures.
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