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Sans-culottes, feeding Europe with the bread of liberty / [Gillray].

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James Gillray

Sans-culottes, feeding Europe with the bread of liberty / [Gillray].

Published

[London] : H. Humphrey, 1793.

hand colored etching
image: 30.3 x 36.5 cm; plate: 31.3 x 36.5 cm; sheet: 32 x 38.1 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2810
Notes
Trimmed.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Five groups, one in each corner, with a central group which represents John Bull, standing full face, between Sheridan (left) and Fox (right), who are forcibly feeding him with the bread of liberty. Both are ragged and bare-legged sansculottes, wearing bonnets-rouges. Each forces a small loaf inscribed 'Liberty', on the point of a dagger, into John's gaping mouth, dipping a hand into his coat-pocket. In the background, standing on a barren plain, are a gibbet (left) and Temple Bar (right). The other groups represent French sansculottes despoiling 'Holland', 'Savoy', 'Germany' & 'Prussia', and 'Italy'.

Associated names
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraver.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department