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S. W. Fores
Malbrouke
Published
London : Pub. Augt. 24, 1791 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly, [24 August 1791]
etching, hand colored
sheet: 190 x 331 mm (trimmed)
Peel 1692
Notes
Library's copy closely trimmed with loss to image and imprint.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Print shows five French citizens, variously depicted as sans culottes and revolutionaries, dancing with glee at the news that the King has been arrested at Varennes and proclaiming lines from the popular song "Malbrouke", or "Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre"; a woman second from the left hitches up her skirt and urinates as a man second from the right, wear breeches torn away at the rear, dances as he defacates. A newspaper lies on the ground in the foreground, reading: Gazette / le roi / est arreté / [struck out] / á Varenne.
Associated names
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
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