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
Adieu Bastille - A drawing of a man with a lion on a leash
Print shows a member of the Third Estate playing a bagpipe, standing next to a tame lion, representing the monarchy, and manipulating marionettes, representing the clergy and the nobility, on a string tied to h... More
L'ignorance prouvée. Ou les evénements de la journée du 11 juillet 178...
French cartoon ridicules the attempt of Abbé Miollan and Janinet to ascend in a hot air balloon by showing the balloon on fire and billowing smoke while being inflated on July 11, 1784 at the Luxembourg gardens... 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
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
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
Vuë de Boston. Prospect der Könnig Strasse gegen das land thor zu Bost...
Print shows view of King Street in Boston, Massachusetts. (as characteristic of optical prints, series title is printed in reverse). Collection des prospects. Se vend á Augsbourg au Negoce com̄un de l'Academie... More
Vue de Boston vers le cale du port / gravé par François Xav. Habermann...
Print shows the harbor in Boston, Massachusetts, two ships at anchor, British soldiers and men working, and merchandise on shore; an idealized view depicting Boston as a typical European city. Published in: Th... More
Expérience aërostatique faite à Versailles le 19 septembre 1783 en pré...
Print shows the balloon of Etienne Montgolfier decorated with King Louis XVI's monogram above the Palace of Versailles carry the first passengers in a balloon flight: a rooster, a sheep and a duck. (Source: A.G... More
Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.
A drawing of a man holding a red flag, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. an... More
Louis XVI, avoit mis le Bonnet rouge, il avoit crié vive la nation, .....
Louis XVI drinking toast to the nation after angry crowd invaded the palace and made the King put on the traditional revolutionary phrygian cap.
Ô qu'el d'Estain - A drawing of a lion with a bird on it's back
Print shows in a medallion, within an oblong frame, a cock, a lion, and a rattlesnake attacking a leopard - this scene labeled "Tu la voulu"; outside the circle, in the four corners of the oblong frame, are the... More
Vuë de Boston. Prospect des plazes vor dem rath house zu Boston Vuë de...
Print shows view of street with the old statehouse and other buildings in Boston, Massachusetts. (as characteristic of optical prints, series title is printed in reverse). Collection des prospects. Se vend á A... More
Vuë de la rue des recolets de Quebeck. Prospect der Strafe gegen der K...
Print shows street view with soldiers marching, and pedestrians in Québec; an idealized view depicting Québec as a typical European city. (as characteristic of optical prints, title is printed in reverse). Col... More
The American rattle snake, British Cartoon Print - James Gillray, Brit...
Cartoon shows "American" snake, the emblem used by Americans as a device on their flag before the adoption of the stars and stripes, with two of three coils around units of British soldiers, commanded by Burgoy... 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
En reviendra-t'elle? - A painting of a group of people sitting around ...
Print shows seven royal physicians in consultation over the health of a female figure, representing the new French constitution, slumped in a chair; a clergyman is washing her feet.
Danse aristocrate Il ne sçait sur quel pied danser.
Print shows Abbé Maury walking a tightrope, attended by the devil disguised as a jester, as nobles encourage him from the left, and on the right, a man and woman, representing members of the Third Estate, attem... More
The Englishman in Paris, British Cartoon Print
Print shows an Englishman, only recently arrived, still wearing his hat, standing just inside the entrance of the home of a Frenchman at dinner time. He is eating the goose which he has taken off the serving pl... 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
Depart de MM. Charles & Robert, du Jardin des Tuilleries dans leur mac...
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. "Sic itur ad astra" wr... More
Globe aërostatique. Dédié à Monsieur Charles. Cette machine est repres...
Jacques Alexandre César Charles departs Nesle, France after the landing of the first hydrogen balloon flight from Paris on December 1, 1783. Marie-Nöel Robert (on the ground at left), who accompanied Charles o... 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
Mr. Charles, Head and Shoulders Portrait
Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist J.A.C. Charles, who made the first flight in a hydrogen balloon, Dec. 1, 1783. Tissandier collection.
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
![[Le premier parachute de Jacques Garnerin, essayé par lui-même au parc de Mousseaux, le 22 octobre 1797]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTIvMDEvbGUtcHJlbWllci1wYXJhY2h1dGUtZGUtamFjcXVlcy1nYXJuZXJpbi1lc3NheWUtcGFyLWx1aS1tZW1lLWF1LXBhcmMtZGUtbW91c3NlYXV4LWFmNDRiYy0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/42/webp "[Le premier parachute de Jacques Garnerin, essayé par lui-même au parc de Mousseaux, le 22 octobre 1797]")
[Le premier parachute de Jacques Garnerin, essayé par lui-même au parc...
Three technical illustrations show "Calotte du parachute" (crown of deployed parachute); "Parachute ployé, à l'instant du départe" (release from ascending balloon); and "Parachute déployé, à l'instant de la sép... More
Frederick William - Picture of Europe for July 1772, British Cartoon P...
Cartoon shows Catherine II, Joseph II, and Frederick II seated at table on which rests a map of Poland; standing behind them and looking over their shoulders are Charles III and Louis XV, still further back, as... More
Experience du globe aerostatique du MM. Charles et Robert au Jardin de...
Print shows Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert riding in the gondola of a balloon ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight. (S... More
Le moment d'hilarité universelle ou le triomphe de MMrs. Charles et Ro...
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 view shows propo... 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
Journée memorable de Versailles le lundi 5 Octobre 1789
Print shows market women of Paris riding on a cannon drawn by two horses, one with rider, during the memorable journey from Paris to Versailles, accompanied by members of the National Guard and others carrying ... More
Vuë de Boston. Prospect von Boston gegen der Bucht am Hasen Vuë de Bos...
Print shows the harbor in Boston, Massachusetts, two ships at anchor, British soldiers and men working, merchandise on shore; an idealized view depicting Boston as a typical European city. (as characteristic o... More
Cas du manifeste du Duc de Brunswick
Print shows four figures representing foreign nations responding unfavorably to the manifesto issued by the Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg on July 25 1792. A fifth figure representing Fame (an angel with trumpe... More
La physique confond l'ignorance Dedié aux souscripteurs.
French cartoon shows a woman (Physics personified) whipping the bare bottom of one man (possibly Janinet) while another (possibly Abbé Miollan), walks away pulling up his trousers. In the background, men are in... 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.
The British lion engaging four powers, British Cartoon Print
Print shows a lion confronting a spaniel, representing Spain, a fighting cock, representing France, a rattlesnake, representing America, and a pug dog, representing Holland. Catalogue of prints and drawings in... More
Experience du globe aerostatique du MM. Charles et Robert au Jardin de...
Print shows Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert riding in the gondola of a balloon ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight. (... More
Dédiée a Monsieur Coustard de Massi, Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal et Mil...
Print shows "Le Suffren," the balloon of Anne-Pierre Coustard de Massy and R.P. Mouchet, ascending from Nantes, France. (Source: Le Temps des Ballons, www.perso.wanadoo.fr.)
![[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
Le jeu de quilles - A drawing of a man in a blue coat and a man in a p...
Print shows a member of the nobility complaining to a member of the clergy, representing the estates general, while a member of the working class, or third estate, bowling in the background, appears to be monop... More
![[Marquis de Brantco (Vanclure), who was involved in a balloon ascension on April 4, 1784, profile portrait] / en aou[...] 1790, [...]ss. p. Fouquet ; gr. p. Chrétien, inv. du physionotrace, Cloitre St. Honoré à Paris.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMjQvbWFycXVpcy1kZS1icmFudGNvLXZhbmNsdXJlLXdoby13YXMtaW52b2x2ZWQtaW4tYS1iYWxsb29uLWFzY2Vuc2lvbi1vbi1hcHJpbC00NzQwOTAtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/56/webp "[Marquis de Brantco (Vanclure), who was involved in a balloon ascension on April 4, 1784, profile portrait] / en aou[...] 1790, [...]ss. p. Fouquet ; gr. p. Chrétien, inv. du physionotrace, Cloitre St. Honoré à Paris.")
[Marquis de Brantco (Vanclure), who was involved in a balloon ascensio...
"Son tableau est fidel et vrai comme lui" printed below portrait. Tissandier collection.
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
Member of the riding house at Paris, delivering an harangue from the s...
Print shows a member of the new French aristocracy wearing a Phrygian or Liberty cap with circular emblem (Liberté - Egalité - Fraternité) riding on the back of a French citizen; he implores, "Messrs. of the me... More
Vie de Bonaparte, premier Consul de la République française / dessiné ...
Print shows twenty-four numbered scenes depicting events in the life of Napoleon I. Scene number two shows Napoleon with his sword endeavoring to cut a hole in a balloon in which he was not allowed to ascend. ... More
Parachute par Mr. A.J. Garnerin
Technical illustration shows a man, possibly André Jacques Garnerin, standing in the basket of a descending parachute. "Fig. 10" from an unidentified publication. Tissandier collection.
![[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
Taming of the shrew: -Katharine & Petruchio; -The modern Quixotte, or,...
Cartoon shows Catherine II, faint and shying away from William Pitt, who appears as Petruchio, and Don Quixote on horseback (a lean and scarred George III whose authority has been usurped by Pitt), seated behin... More
Vue de Boston vers le cale du port / gravé par François Xav. Habermann...
Print shows the harbor in Boston, Massachusetts, two ships at anchor, British soldiers and men working, and merchandise on shore; an idealized view depicting Boston as a typical European city. Published in: Th... More
Debarquement des troupes Engloises a Nouvelle Yorck Die anländung der ...
Print shows the disembarkation of British troops at New York. (as characteristic of optical prints, title is printed in reverse). Exhibited: "Creating the United States," the Library of Congress, Washington, D... More
The christian amazon, with her invincible target, Alias, the focus of ...
Cartoon shows Catherine II, as an amazon with sword raised and bearing a shield emblazoned with double-headed eagle, battling the Sultan, Selim III, attacking with a rifle fixed with bayonet; Joseph II, an ally... More
Le ballon de Lyon, nommé le de Flesselles de 120 pieds de haut sur 102...
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
York town, British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon
Cartoon shows "America" receiving the surrender of Cornwallis in the background, while an emaciated cow representing "English commerce" is robbed of her milk by France, Spain, and Holland in the left foreground... More
Premier hommage des Habitans de Paris á la Famille Royale le mercredi ...
The royal family--Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and their children. Translated title: First hommage of the people of Paris to the Royal Family, Wednesday, October 7, 1789, the day after his happy arrival in thi... More
Aux amateurs de physique - Public domain book illustration
French cartoon shows people crowded outside the Tuileries Garden wall in Paris to view the first balloon ascension of Jacques Charles and Marie-Noël Robert in 1783. Several people are climbing over the wall, in... More
Air-balloons / A. Bell, sculpt.
Book illustration shows five early balloon ascensions in France: two Montgolfier balloons (Fauxbourg St. Antoine and St. Germain); a 1784 balloon of Jean-Pierre Blanchard; and a Charles and Robert balloon being... More
Buonaparte at Rome giving audience in state / I.Ck., British Cartoon P...
Cartoon shows Napoleon, wearing tattered clothing, seated on a low throne; kneeling before him is a pope placing the keys of St. Peter at his feet as he kicks the crown off the popes head, saying "I say remembe... 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
La plaisanterie confondüe ou les intrépides voyageurs
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; spectators in foregrou... 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
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
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
Vue de la basse ville à Québec vers le fleuve St. Laurent / gravé par ...
Print shows the harbor at Québec, one ship at anchor, men working loading or unloading a boat, and merchandise on shore; an idealized view depicting Québec as a typical European city. Published in: The America... More
Vuë de Boston. Prospect der Könnig Strasse gegen das land thor zu Bost...
Print shows view of King Street in Boston, Massachusetts. (as characteristic of optical prints, series title is printed in reverse). Collection des prospects. Se vend á Augsbourg au Negoce com̄un de l'Academie... More
The Prussian prize-fighter and his allies attempting to tame imperial ...
Cartoon shows Catherine II and Frederick William II as pugilists, stripped to the waist with fists raised, on either side stand other European heads of state (behind Prussia are George III standing with Holland... More
The colonies reduced - its companion, British Cartoon Print
Print shows two illustrations on a single sheet, on the top, Britannia, as the Roman general Belisarius, is dismembered, her torso leaning against a globe with a banner "Date Obolum Belli Sario" (give a penny f... More
Calendrier royal indiquant le cours du soleil
Print shows Louis XIV sitting on a box with fan-shaped back in the center of a sun. The numerous rays of the sun document indignities attributed to the King between 1667 and 1705, such as: "Adultere avec Me. de... More
Combat memorable entre le Pearson et Paul Jones / Richard Paton pinxit...
Vue d'optique showing naval battle during Revolutionary War between John Paul Jones of the Bonhomme Richard and Capt. Richard Pearson of the British naval vessel Serapis, Sept. 22, 1779. Title appears in revers... More
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.
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
Sublime and beautiful reflections on the French revolution, or the man...
Print shows Edmund Burke sitting at a desk on a crescent moon, holding a quill pen, an open "pamphlet" and an inkwell are on the desk, broken chains hang from his wrists; a scene on the front of the desk, label... More
Assemblée des Capucins l'Assemblée des aristocrates, ou l'harmonica de...
Print shows a Capucin monk standing on a platform covered with money bags, ringing a bell, with a bird perched on his head, amid a collection of various jugs, jars, vases, pots (aristocratic dolts or blockheads... More
M. Pilatre de Rozier, navigateur ae̋rien / dessiné p. Goulet ; gravé p...
Bust-length profile portrait of French balloonist Pilatre de Rozier. Tissandier collection.
![Etienne et Joseph Montgolfier, freres. Nés à Annonay en Vivaraes [i.e. Vivarais], inventeurs en Société du globe ae̋rostatique / gravé p. Thoenert.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMjYvZXRpZW5uZS1ldC1qb3NlcGgtbW9udGdvbGZpZXItZnJlcmVzLW5lcy1hLWFubm9uYXktZW4tdml2YXJhZXMtaWUtdml2YXJhaXMtNTAzMGIwLTEwMjQuanBn/40/45/webp "Etienne et Joseph Montgolfier, freres. Nés à Annonay en Vivaraes [i.e. Vivarais], inventeurs en Société du globe ae̋rostatique / gravé p. Thoenert.")
Etienne et Joseph Montgolfier, freres. Nés à Annonay en Vivaraes [i.e....
Bust-length double profile portrait of the Montgolfier brothers, French ballonists; after the gold medal designed by Houdon. Two images below portrait show "Projet d'un Monument a elever a Mr. Charles" in Paris... More
B. Franklin, L.L.D. F.R.S. - ambassador from the Congress of America t...
Print shows Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, left profile, in oval. After the medal by the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres in 1778. Illus. in: An impartial history of the war in America, between... 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).
Monsr. Garnerin, the intrepid aeronaut, engraving, Library of Congress
Oval head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist and parchutist A.J. Garnerin. Tissandier collection.
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
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 martydom of Louis XVI, King of France - I forgive my enemies, I di...
Print shows Louis XVI standing, with a dramatic pose, next to a guillotine. Includes description of the mechanics of the guillotine.
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
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
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
![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/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMDUvdGhlLWdyZWF0LW1vbnN0ZXItcmVwdWJsaWNhbi1oYXZpbmctdHJhdmVyc2VkLWdyZWF0LXBhcnQtb2YtZXVyb3BlLWJ1dC1zZWUtZDMxZDM0LTEwMjQuanBn/40/32/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 colonies reduced - its companion, British Cartoon Print
Print shows two illustrations on a single sheet, on the top, Britannia, as the Roman general Belisarius, is dismembered, her torso leaning against a globe with a banner "Date Obolum Belli Sario" (give a penny f... More
The genius of France extirpating despotism tyranny & oppression from t...
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 backgrou... More
York town. Book illustration from Library of Congress, British Cartoon...
Cartoon shows "America" receiving the surrender of Cornwallis in the background, while an emaciated cow representing "English commerce" is robbed of her milk by France, Spain, and Holland in the left foreground... More
![Ils font ce qu'ils peuvent air [text] : ou, allez vous Mr. l'Abbé & c. / par Boucault.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDkvaWxzLWZvbnQtY2UtcXVpbHMtcGV1dmVudC1haXItdGV4dC1vdS1hbGxlei12b3VzLW1yLWxhYmJlLWFuZC1jLXBhci1ib3VjYXVsdC1hNGU1ZWUtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/32/webp "Ils font ce qu'ils peuvent air [text] : ou, allez vous Mr. l'Abbé & c. / par Boucault.")
Ils font ce qu'ils peuvent air [text] : ou, allez vous Mr. l'Abbé & c....
Leaflet with song about balloonists l'Abbé Miolan (or Miollan) and Janinet's unsuccessful attempt at an ascent from the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, 1784. The title page illustration captioned "Le globe en fumée"... More
Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck / gravé par François X...
Print shows several buildings along street engulfed in flames during fire on September 19, 1776, citizens being beaten by Redcoats, and looting by African slaves. Includes brief text (five lines) in both German... More