An enslav'd French Republican, the envy of despots &c &c
Published
[London?] : [Publisher not identified], 1796
etching, hand colored
sheet: 160 x 103 mm
Peel 1796
Notes
Caption title.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Print shows a tall, slender man wearing a bonnet rouge with cockade; in one hand (at left) he holds a sabre, and in the other (at right), some shackles which he appears to be in the act of dropping on the ground, where another shackle lies at lower right; behind him is a fragment of a stone wall labeled, "Ruins of the Bastille", and sitting on top of it is a stack of books identified as "Mountesquieu", "Rousseau", "Voltaire", and "Paine".
Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
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