Blessed are the peacemakers, British Cartoon Print
Print shows two men representing Spain and France leading George III by a rope attached to his neck and Lord Shelburne through a gateway formed by spears, from the crossbar of which are tumbling the British lio... More
Il faut en Goûter - A drawing of a group of people hanging on to a pol...
Print shows a winged globe with fleur-de-lis topped by a green liberty cap labeled "Liberté"; hanging beneath the globe is a balance supporting, on the left, members of the National Assembly demanding "Veto abs... More
Le roi promettant de venir a Paris avec sa famille. Salve d'Artillerie...
Print shows the departure from Versailles of Louis XVI and his family accompanied by a large mob of citizens, mostly women, who have come to excort them back to Paris. Illustration from: Collection complète de... More
An altercation concerning r-l wives, &c / Lewis Marks del., British Ca...
Print shows Napoleon I standing on a slip of land labeled "Elba" yelling at George, Prince of Wales, who is standing on a patch of land labeled "England." Napoleon complains that the British have deprived him o... More
The plan, or a scene in the French cabinet, Sepr. 1779, British Cartoo...
Cartoon shows Benjamin Franklin standing, center, holding a copy of the "Plan" which calls for draining of the "British Ocean" to facilitate an invasion by French troops; in his other hand are strings connected... More
Excise inquisition erecting by English slaves under the scourge of the...
A British satire on an attempt by William Pitt and George Rose to transfer to excise law certain import duties; standing in opposition is Edward Thurlow. The central image shows Britannia, wrapped in a blanket ... More
Antoine de Parcieux, des Academies royales des sciences de France, de ...
Bust-length profile portrait of French mathematician Antoine de Parcieux. Tissandier collection.
![[Arms of the British forces] - Public domain print](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE3ODUvMDEvMDEvYXJtcy1vZi10aGUtYnJpdGlzaC1mb3JjZXMtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/64/webp "[Arms of the British forces] - Public domain print")
[Arms of the British forces] - Public domain print
Print shows British arms with drum and flag as title page ornament. Illus. in: History of the war with America, France, Spain, and Holland : commencing in 1775 and ending in 1783 / John Andrews. London : J. Fi... 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
![[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
Un Sans culotte instrument de crimes dansant au milieu de horreurs ...
Print shows a sansculotte waving banner labeled "Fête du 21 Janvier" at a female figure labeled "Humanité"; in the background is a scene of murder and mayhem. Satire on the death of Louis XVI. Forms part of: F... More
The doctor indulged with his favorite scene, British Cartoon Print
Cartoon shows cleric Dr. Richard Price, kneeling on a crown with a demon on his back, peering through a peep-hole into the royal bedroom at Versailles, watching ruffians destroy the Queen's bed and bedroom in s... 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
Beethoven / L. Balestrieri pinx Paris 1900 ; W. Leo Arndt sculps.
Print showing five people sitting on the left listening to a man playing the violin and a man playing the piano. Copyright 1901 by Rich. Bong. Berlin.
The knight of the woeful countenance going to extirpate the National A...
Print shows Edmund Burke as Don Quixote, wearing armor, carrying lance and shield labeled "Shield of Aristocracy and Despotism," riding a donkey, emerging from the doorway to the "Dodsley Bookseller" the publis... More
Property protected--à la Françoise, British Cartoon Print
British satire of Franco-American relations after the XYZ Affair in May of 1798; 5 Frenchmen plunder female "America", while five figures representing other European countries look on. John Bull sits laughing o... 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
Hell broke loose, or, The murder of Louis, vide, the account of that u...
Print shows the execution of Louis XVI, King of France, January 21, 1793, by guillotine as citizen Louis Capet. Devils stand on the platform as well as fly overhead, suggesting that the beheading of Louis, with... More
The Corsican-pest;-or-Belzebub going to supper, British Cartoon Print
The Devil with demons roasting Napoleon on a pitchfork in the flames of Hell. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
A sketch of the interior view of the House of Lords, representing the ...
Print showing the interior of the House of Lords during the trial of Caroline, queen, consort of George IV. Seated around a table in the center are the Queen, the Judges, the Bishops, the Lord Chancellor, the A... More
![Joseph Pennell - [West front, Rouen cathedral]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTIvMTEvd2VzdC1mcm9udC1yb3Vlbi1jYXRoZWRyYWwtMDI5ZThkLTEwMjQuanBn/40/49/webp "Joseph Pennell - [West front, Rouen cathedral]")
Joseph Pennell - [West front, Rouen cathedral]
Print showing cathedral with scaffolding. Wuerth, 470. Edition of 90? Signed in pencil. Unidentified mark and ink note in margin. Plate in LC. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Libr... More
The knight of the woeful countenance going to extirpate the National A...
Print shows Edmund Burke as Don Quixote, wearing armor, carrying lance and shield labeled "Shield of Aristocracy and Despotism," riding a donkey, emerging from the doorway to the "Dodsley Bookseller" the publis... More
Les Anglois molestes et chatiees, Political Cartoon
Print shows 1. a beaming sun with fleur-de-lis shining on 2. a man who resembles George Washington, wearing military uniform and hat labeled "Congress" and "Washington," holding a raised lash in his right hand ... 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
Buonaparté pie / Woodward delin., British Cartoon Print
Caricature of British person holding small figure of Napoleon on fork toward mouth. Form part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
French liberty - British slavery / Js. Gy. desn. et fect. pro bono pub...
A design in two compartments. On the left is a lean and ragged sansculotte, seated on a stool before an open hearth ravenously eating raw onions, while he warms his bare toes at the fire. He is rejoicing. On th... More
Visiting the sick, British Cartoon Print - James Gillray, British
Print shows Charles Fox sitting in an armchair, obviously ill. On one side of him is Mrs. Fitzherbert, dressed as an abbess and holding a rosary; on the other side is a bishop in robes and mitre. In front of Fo... More
Les deux ne font qu'un - A drawing of a goat and a goat in a field
Print shows Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette as a two-headed monster pulling in opposite directions; Louis wears the horns of a cuckold and Marie Antoinette has the head of Medusa wearing ostrich feathers. de Vi... More
By his majestys royal letters patent - the new invented method of puni...
Print shows Britannia drawn and quartered at a crossroad by ropes attached to three horses, one labeled "Tyranny" racing down the road "to America", another labeled "Venality" racing down the road "to Spain", a... More
National contrasts or Bulky and Boney / etch'd by Roberts., British Ca...
Print shows, on the left, a plump, "bulky" Englishman smoking a pipe while seated at a table laden with food and drink, on his left a cornucopia overflows with coins, and under the table is a dog with collar la... More
Le tiers état confesseur La constitution Française.
Print shows on the left, a member of the Third Estate sitting in a confessional listening to the confession of the clergy from a clergyman reading a long list of sins, a nobleman is departing, carrying a long l... More
![The inquisitorial triumph, or the investiture of orator M[ackli]n, British Cartoon Print](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTUvMTEvMjUvdGhlLWlucXVpc2l0b3JpYWwtdHJpdW1waC1vci10aGUtaW52ZXN0aXR1cmUtb2Ytb3JhdG9yLW1hY2tsaW4tNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/27/webp "The inquisitorial triumph, or the investiture of orator M[ackli]n, British Cartoon Print")
The inquisitorial triumph, or the investiture of orator M[ackli]n, Bri...
This record contains unverified, old data from an unpublished P&P checklist, "British Political and Social Cartoons, 1655-1832 ... not in the published catalogs of the British Museum," compiled in 1968 (NC 1470... More
Maniac-raving's-or-Little Boney in a strong fit / Js. Gillray inv. & f...
Cartoon showing Napoleon in a fury over relations between France and England. Catalog of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 9998 Forms part of: Brit... More
The curious zebra - alive from America! walk in gem'men and ladies, wa...
Cartoon shows a group of men, including George Washington who is standing to the right holding the tail of the zebra, and Lord North, standing on the left gripping the reins, trying to guide the zebra on whose ... More
Property protected--à la Françoise, British Cartoon Print
British satire of Franco-American relations after the XYZ Affair in May of 1798; 5 Frenchmen plunder female "America", while five figures representing other European countries look on. John Bull sits laughing o... More
A republican belle - a picture of Paris for 1794 / IC., British Cartoo...
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 skul... More
Seconds voyageurs aëriens, ou expérience de MM. Charles et Robert fait...
Print shows the balloon of Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight; inset map shows locati... 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
Count de Rochambeau - French general of the land forces in America rev...
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5706 Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The Ame... More
Uncorking old sherry / Js. Gillrlay, inv. & fecit., British Cartoon Pr...
William Pitt stands in the House of Commons, facing the opposition which is represented by bottles containing the heads of the most well-known opposition leaders including Fox, Tierney, Windham and Grey. At Pit... More
Uncorking old sherry / Js. Gillrlay, inv. & fecit., British Cartoon Pr...
William Pitt stands in the House of Commons, facing the opposition which is represented by bottles containing the heads of the most well-known opposition leaders including Fox, Tierney, Windham and Grey. At Pit... More
A republican belle - a picture of Paris for 1794 / IC., British Cartoo...
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 skul... More
Revolution, or Johnny Bull in France
Print shows a large bull labeled "Tiers Etat - Orleans" referring to Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d'Orleans, tossing Marie Antoinette into the air as Louis XVI kneels in prayer on the left; standing behind the bu... More
![[Emblematical print adapted to the times], British Cartoon Print](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE3NzgvMDEvMDEvZW1ibGVtYXRpY2FsLXByaW50LWFkYXB0ZWQtdG8tdGhlLXRpbWVzLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/26/webp "[Emblematical print adapted to the times], British Cartoon Print")
[Emblematical print adapted to the times], British Cartoon Print
Print shows Britannia conferring with Neptune over the upstart America; they sit on the shore, presumably of England, and point to a man seated on the opposite shore holding a striped flag with 26 (13 white and... More
Seconds voyageurs aëriens, ou expérience de MM. Charles et Robert fait...
Print shows the balloon of Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight; inset map shows locati... 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
Buonaparte, 48 hours after landing!--Vide John Bulls home-stroke, arme...
Head of Napoleon dripping blood, held high on a pitch fork by a British volunteer soldier, "John Bull." Other volunteers gather around. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Maniac-raving's-or-Little Boney in a strong fit / Js. Gillray inv. & f...
Cartoon showing Napoleon in a fury over relations between France and England. Catalog of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 9998 Forms part of: Brit... More
French liberty - British slavery / Js. Gy. desn. et fect. pro bono pub...
A design in two compartments. On the left is a lean and ragged sansculotte, seated on a stool before an open hearth ravenously eating raw onions, while he warms his bare toes at the fire. He is rejoicing. On th... More
Louis d'Or au soleil - Engraving, Public domain image
Print shows Louis XIV sitting next to a table, head resting on his left elbow which rests on his left knee; he is asleep, though his right hand rests on money bags lying on the table with some loose coins. He w... More
Chasse à la grosse bête - A drawing of an elephant attacking a man on ...
Print shows members of a citizen's militia attacking and severing heads of a great beast, the many-headed Hydra of despotism. The Bastille appears under siege in the background. Includes a long caption, "Couple... 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
Pompe funebre de Mirabeau, le 4 Avril 1791 Prieur inv. & del. ; Bertha...
Print shows the interior of the church of Saint-Eustache in Paris, France, during the funeral of the comte de Mirabeau, with members of the Garde nationale shooting rifles in salute, and in the background, cler... More
The ghost of a guinea! or the country banker's surprise!! / Woodward, ...
Print shows a banker astonished by a guinea coin with King George III on it. The banker says, "Surely my eyes do not deceive me--it certainly must be a Guinea!--I declare I have not seen such a thing since I ha... More
Les formes acerbes / Me. Poirier de Dunkerque, avocat, invt., publié l...
Print shows Joseph Le Bon, as a shirtless, crazed madman, standing on a pile of decapitated bodies between two guillotines, he is drinking blood from a chalice as he fills another chalice with the blood spewing... More
The journey of a modern hero, to the island of Elba, British Cartoon P...
Print shows Napoleon I seated backwards on a donkey on the road "to Elba" from Fontainebleau; he holds a broken sword in one hand and the donkey's tail in the other while two drummers follow him playing a farew... More
A sketch for the regents speech on Mad-ass-son's insanity / G. Cruiksh...
Gabriel blowing a message "A bad news for you" at James Madison, who is standing between Napoleon and the devil, as two women symbolizing Great Britain and America, and British soldiers look on.
A republican beau - a picture of Paris for 1794 / I. Cruikshank del., ...
Print shows a man, a sansculotte, in ragged red, white, and blue stripe clothing, he holds a spiked club in one hand, wears pistols in his belt on which is written "War Eternal War" and he has a dead infant stu... More
A republican beau - a picture of Paris for 1794 / I. Cruikshank del., ...
Print shows a man, a sansculotte, in ragged red, white, and blue stripe clothing, he holds a spiked club in one hand, wears pistols in his belt on which is written "War Eternal War" and he has a dead infant stu... More
Jack England fighting the four confederates
Print shows a British sailor about to fight the "four confederates" America as "Yanky Doodle" (represented by a Native man wearing feathered headdress and skirt) lying on the ground moaning, "This fall has hurt... 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
Confederation Nationale du 14 Juillet 1790 Aux deux soutiens de la lib...
Print shows a central scene at the National Federation festivities recognizing the union of the three estates with a display on a tiered stage illuminated by torches and with many figures making salutory gestur... More
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
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
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
Comfort of a Bed of Roses, British Cartoon Print, James Gillray
Charles Fox, in bed with his wife, having a nightmare. To the right, Napoleon jumps to the bed from a cannon with the words "Pour subjugeur le Monde" inscribed on the muzzle; behind him are seen pikes and a ban... More
Dédiée l'Assemblée Nationale--Liste de MMr. les Deputes de Paris a l'A...
Deputies of the Third Estate in a carriage drawn by two sheep and two bulls on their way to the Versailles directory; dishevelled lion; figure of the Republic with anchor on low platform behind; list of deputie... More
Mort affreuse de Louis XVI, le plus vertueux et le plus infortuné de m...
The execution of Louis XVI by France. John Davis Batchelder Collection. No. 87.
Allarme générale des habitants de Gonesse occasionée par la chûte du b...
Vue d'optique shows the unmanned gas balloon, "The Globe," which frightened the villagers in Gonesse, France after landing there on August 27, 1783.
Company shocked at a lady getting up to ring the bell / B., Esq, del.,...
A violent disturbance in a breakfast parlor. A woman stands to ring the bell-pull while the five men at the table react in horror, stumbling and knocking over items on the table as they attempt to stop her. The... More
Exit libertè a la Francois! or Buonaparte closing the farce of Egalité...
British satire shows Napoleon with his grenadiers driving the members of the Council of Five Hundred from the Orangery at St. Cloud at bayonet point. A drum is labeled "Vive la Liberte," and papers under foot r... More
The knight of the woeful countenance going to extirpate the National A...
Print shows Edmund Burke as Don Quixote, wearing armor, carrying lance and shield labeled "Shield of Aristocracy and Despotism," riding a donkey, emerging from the doorway to the "Dodsley Bookseller" the publis... More
John Bull fighting the French single handed / P.F.L.B. fecit., British...
Print shows John Bull rapping a French soldier on the head with a cudgel, stomping on a French officer with his right foot, and using his left foot to kick the French nobility out of England and back to France ... More
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
![[View of a city on a river] - Engraving, Public domain image](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4NTAvMDEvMDEvdmlldy1vZi1hLWNpdHktb24tYS1yaXZlci0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/32/webp "[View of a city on a river] - Engraving, Public domain image")
[View of a city on a river] - Engraving, Public domain image
Public domain photograph - historical image of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
![Experience aërostatique faite à Lyon; d'un ballon de cent pieds de diamètre le 10 [i.e. 19] janvier 1784, à midi 48 min[u]tes](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMjUvZXhwZXJpZW5jZS1hZXJvc3RhdGlxdWUtZmFpdGUtYS1seW9uLWR1bi1iYWxsb24tZGUtY2VudC1waWVkcy1kZS1kaWFtZXRyZS1sZS0yZWU1M2MtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/59/webp "Experience aërostatique faite à Lyon; d'un ballon de cent pieds de diamètre le 10 [i.e. 19] janvier 1784, à midi 48 min[u]tes")
Experience aërostatique faite à Lyon; d'un ballon de cent pieds de dia...
Print shows the balloon, "Le Flesselles" ascending over Lyon, France, on January 19, 1784, carrying seven passengers including Joseph Montgolfier and Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC ... More
The Plumb-pudding in danger, or, State epicures taking un petit souper...
William Pitt, wearing a regimental uniform and hat, sitting at a table with Napoleon. They are each carving a large plum pudding on which is a map of the world. Pitt's slice is considerably larger than Napoleon... More
The heroic Charlotte la Cordé, upon her trial, at the bar of the revol...
Print shows Charlotte Corday standing before the judges of the Revolutionary Tribunal with the body of Marat which lying between them. She responds to the Tribunal, "Wretches, I did not expect to appear before ... More
La France Figurée sous un Globe est soutenu du Peuple La Noblesse et l...
Print shows a nobleman dressed as a knight and a bishop standing on either side of a globe which is resting on the shoulders of a member of the Third Estate, indicating that the burden of supporting the state w... More
![Exp[é]rience a[ë]rostatique faite Versailles le 19 sept. 1783](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMTUvZXhwZXJpZW5jZS1hZXJvc3RhdGlxdWUtZmFpdGUtdmVyc2FpbGxlcy1sZS0xOS1zZXB0LTE3ODMtODBlZDRmLTEwMjQuanBn/40/30/webp "Exp[é]rience a[ë]rostatique faite Versailles le 19 sept. 1783")
Exp[é]rience a[ë]rostatique faite Versailles le 19 sept. 1783
Vue d'optique shows the balloon launched by the Montgolfier brothers ascending from the Palace of Versailles, France, before the royal family, September 19, 1783. A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the only pa... 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
![The father of the family takeing [sic] his eldest boy from school, British Cartoon Print](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMTQvdGhlLWZhdGhlci1vZi10aGUtZmFtaWx5LXRha2Vpbmctc2ljLWhpcy1lbGRlc3QtYm95LWZyb20tc2Nob29sLTIwNzZmNS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/56/webp "The father of the family takeing [sic] his eldest boy from school, British Cartoon Print")
The father of the family takeing [sic] his eldest boy from school, Bri...
Print shows Napoleon being taken away "from school" by the devil ascending into the sky. No. "365" printed in upper right corner of plate. Tegg reproduction. Probably 1813-1815, after Leipzig but before Waterl... More
Un Sans culotte instrument de crimes dansant au milieu de horreurs ...
Print shows a sansculotte waving banner labeled "Fête du 21 Janvier" at a female figure labeled "Humanité"; in the background is a scene of murder and mayhem. Satire on the death of Louis XVI. Forms part of: F... More
Visiting the sick, British Cartoon Print - James Gillray, British
Print shows Charles Fox sitting in an armchair, obviously ill. On one side of him is Mrs. Fitzherbert, dressed as an abbess and holding a rosary; on the other side is a bishop in robes and mitre. In front of Fo... 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
Mr. de Lambesc entrant aux Tuileries avec un détachement de Royal-Alle...
Print shows a clash between civilians and the Swiss Guards in the Tuileries Garden, Paris. Plate from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. Paris, chez Auber, 1804, no. 7. P... More
The state nurses. Book illustration from Library of Congress, British ...
Print shows the Earl of Mansfield, seated, and the Earl of Sandwich keeping watch over the British lion asleep in a cradle around which are four barking dogs labeled "Holland", "America" who is urinating on a p... 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
Le roi arrivant a Paris avec sa famille, escorté de plus de trente mil...
Print shows the arrival in Paris of Louis XVI and his family accompanied by a large mob of citizens. Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. Paris, chez Aube... More
La quatorzieme expérience aerostatique de M. Blanchard accompagné du C...
Print shows the balloon of Jean-Pierre Blanchard ascending from Lille, France. Tissandier collection.
Prospectis Castri Vincennarum ex parte ingressus = Vue du Chateau de V...
Gift; Louise McDanell Browne; 1948. Stamped on verso: Gift from Louise McDanell Browne in memory of her husband C.A. Browne, April 27 1948. The Library of Congress. Inscribed in ink lower right on verso: C. A.... More
Exit libertè a la Francois! or Buonaparte closing the farce of Egalité...
British satire shows Napoleon with his grenadiers driving the members of the Council of Five Hundred from the Orangery at St. Cloud at bayonet point. A drum is labeled "Vive la Liberte," and papers under foot r... More
The knight of the woeful countenance going to extirpate the National A...
Print shows Edmund Burke as Don Quixote, wearing armor, carrying lance and shield labeled "Shield of Aristocracy and Despotism," riding a donkey, emerging from the doorway to the "Dodsley Bookseller" the publis... More
Belägerung vnd Einemung der Statt vnd Schloss Dachstein im vndern Elsa...
Print shows birds eye view of the encampment of Swedish troops outside of Dachstein in Alsace. The walled town with its castle indicate is shown under attack by cannon fire, smoke is visible from within the tow... More
Die Glückliche Action welche durch die Siegreiche Waffen Dero Röm: Kay...
Birds-eye view print shows the battle of Entzheim (in Alsace, France) between French forces under Turenne against forces of the Holy Roman Empire in October 1674. Includes views of smaller villages around "Ensh... More
Premier voyage aërien en présence de Mr. le Dauphin / dessine par le C...
Print shows a Montgolfier-style balloon in flight over Paris, France. Remarque shows a balloon in flight surrounded by clouds.
![The Great monster, Republican, having traversed great part of Europe--but see Britania [sic] and roused her lion to give this monster, a proper reception, British Cartoon Print](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMDUvdGhlLWdyZWF0LW1vbnN0ZXItcmVwdWJsaWNhbi1oYXZpbmctdHJhdmVyc2VkLWdyZWF0LXBhcnQtb2YtZXVyb3BlLWJ1dC1zZWUtMzI0MGRkLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/27/webp "The Great monster, Republican, having traversed great part of Europe--but see Britania [sic] and roused her lion to give this monster, a proper reception, British Cartoon Print")
The Great monster, Republican, having traversed great part of Europe--...
Political cartoon showing France as a monster, with one foot on Switzerland, facing Britannia with lion, saying, "All de nations in Europe has accepted de liberty, la François - ... We will come and plant the t... More
The plan, or a scene in the French cabinet, Sepr. 1779, British Cartoo...
Cartoon shows Benjamin Franklin standing, center, holding a copy of the "Plan" which calls for draining of the "British Ocean" to facilitate an invasion by French troops; in his other hand are strings connected... 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.