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De Nationale Conventie in barensnood van eene Constitutie
Published
[1796]
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image: 25.2 x 20.5 cm; plate: 27.7 x 22 cm; sheet: 29.6 x 23.7 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2920
Notes
Printed in dark red ink.
Printed in upper left corner of image: 19.
Plate number 19 in the series Hollandia regenerata.
Printed in upper left corner of image: 19.
Plate number 19 in the series Hollandia regenerata.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
The Convention, a creature with the body of a stout woman and with seven monstrous and demoniac heads, sits full-face in an accoucheur's chair. A little demon on the ground holds up a pitchfork. A French surgeon, smiling (right), with shirt-sleeves rolled up, holds a clumsy pair of forceps; a Dutch accoucheur, fat and senile, peers into a folio volume: 'Sectio Caes: et Sectio Synchondroseos'.
Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
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