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France - History - Revolution, 1789-1799

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  • Mercury, an agent of the Terror, carries Capucin Chabot naked towards a furnace; recording the turnover of human life during the Terror in the French Revolution. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1794.
  • English families taken as hostages in the French Revolution, imprisoned in the orphanage of Arras. Engraving by P. Maxell, 1802, after T. Snagg.
  • The head of King Louis XVI being cut off by a guillotine. Etching by James Gillray, 1793.
  • A mock escutcheon for a united, British republican college of health practitioners; representing British debate over the French Revolution. Coloured etching, 1798.
  • The Bastille, Paris. Line engraving by J.F. Borgnet after J.M. Gudin (?).
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Catalogue

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    École de Médecine, Paris. Lithograph.

    | Reference: 23629i
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    Jean Sylvain Bailly, Mayor of Paris, with his mistress, both represented as chickens. Etching, 1791.

    | Date: 1791 | Reference: 15982i
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    Cabanis, un idéologue : de Mirabeau à Bonaparte / Yves Pouliquen.

    Pouliquen, Yves. | Date: [2013], ©2013
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    Jean-Paul Marat (1743-93) : ein Naturforscher und Revolutionär, sein Zusammentreffen in der Geisteswelt mit Goethe, Lamarck, Rousseau u. a. / von Dr. Hugo Rozbroj.

    Rozbroj, Hugo | Date: 1937
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    Cecilia Renaud is apprehended by soldiers after being suspected of intending to assassinate Robespierre. Stipple engraving by G. Aliprandi after J.H. Fragonard.

    Fragonard, Jean-Honoré, 1732-1806. | Date: 20 June 1803 | Reference: 42617i
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