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James Gillray
1756-1815
Sans-culottes feeding Europe with the bread of liberty
[London] : Pubd Jany 12st [sic] 1793 by H Humphrey N 18 Old Bond Street, [1793]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.458
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[London] : Pubd. Jany. 12st. [sic] 1793 by H. Humphrey N 18 Old Bond Street, [1793]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Designed and etched by James Gillray.
Summary:
Design consists of five groups variously identified as Holland, Savoy, Germany & Prussia, Italy, and John Bull, showing pantless sansculottes forcefeeding small loaves of bread labelled "Liberty" to representatives of the different nations, including a Dutchman, a Savoyard hurdy-gurdy man, an Austrian and Prussian army officer, and the Pope. A central group shows John Bull between Sheridan and Fox, who are forcibly feeding him with the bread of liberty. Both are caricatured as 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, while dipping a hand into his coat-pocket.
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