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Jean Baptiste Huet - Comité de l'an deuxieme

Jean Baptiste Huet - Comité de l'an deuxieme

Print showing a man presenting a certificate of citizenship to the Committee of Public Safety or Revolutionary Tribunal during it's second year of existence (1794-1795). Three men are sitting at the table and t... More

A republican belle - a picture of Paris for 1794 / IC., British Cartoon Print

A republican belle - a picture of Paris for 1794 / IC., British Cartoo...

Print shows an old woman, a sansculotte, in ragged dress, her arms folded across her chest, holding a pistol in one hand, which she fires at a man lying on the ground, and a dagger in the other. There is a skul... More

Voilà la plus cuite, mon Empereur!

Voilà la plus cuite, mon Empereur!

Print shows Napoleon stopping at an evening mealtime bivouac to converse with the rank and file soldiers who offer him one of their potatoes. Déposé. Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library... More

Oup...oup...ça n'ira pas Ah! ça ira...ça ira. Les aristocrates a la raison.

Oup...oup...ça n'ira pas Ah! ça ira...ça ira. Les aristocrates a la ra...

Print shows Maximilien Robespierre playing a fiddle and dancing with a small dog, identified as Jean-Lambert Tallien, dancing to the music.

Compulsion pour ces gens que n'attend pas la libertie / TC.

Compulsion pour ces gens que n'attend pas la libertie / TC.

Print shows a tattered group of soldiers, one with peg leg, following a cart drawn by hooded executioners; chains, an axe, and a gibbet are visible among the items in the cart. On the far right, a pile of dead ... More

Intérieur d'un comité révolutionnaire sous le régime de la terreur / Fragonard fils inv. ; Malapeau aqua forti ; Berthault sculp.

Intérieur d'un comité révolutionnaire sous le régime de la terreur / F...

Print shows the interior of a room used by the Revolutionary committee during the Reign of Terror; citizens enter on the left and submit their appeals, then procede along the table where judgment is pronounced ... More

A republican belle - a picture of Paris for 1794 / IC., British Cartoon Print

A republican belle - a picture of Paris for 1794 / IC., British Cartoo...

Print shows an old woman, a sansculotte, in ragged dress, her arms folded across her chest, holding a pistol in one hand, which she fires at a man lying on the ground, and a dagger in the other. There is a skul... More

The heroic Charlotte la Cordé, upon her trial, at the bar of the revolutionary tribunal of Paris, July 17, 1793 / Js. Gy. desn. et fect., British Cartoon Print

The heroic Charlotte la Cordé, upon her trial, at the bar of the revol...

Print shows Charlotte Corday standing before the judges of the Revolutionary Tribunal with the body of Marat which lying between them. She responds to the Tribunal, "Wretches, I did not expect to appear before ... More

The near in blood, the nearer bloody

The near in blood, the nearer bloody

Print shows the Duke of Orleans dressed as a ragged sansculotte, holding an axe over the head of Louis XVI which rests on a chopping block, while Marie Antoinette pleads for him to show a "touch of pity."

Les formes acerbes / Me. Poirier de Dunkerque, avocat, invt., publié le 13 Mai 1795.

Les formes acerbes / Me. Poirier de Dunkerque, avocat, invt., publié l...

Print shows Joseph Le Bon, as a shirtless, crazed madman, standing on a pile of decapitated bodies between two guillotines, he is drinking blood from a chalice as he fills another chalice with the blood spewing... More

[Court scene, possibly during the reign of terror, with the accused man standing before the revolutionary tribunal]

[Court scene, possibly during the reign of terror, with the accused ma...

Trimmed to within plate mark on right side. Gift; Mrs. Maria G. Venn; 1950 March 22.

A republican beau - a picture of Paris for 1794 / I. Cruikshank del., British Cartoon Print

A republican beau - a picture of Paris for 1794 / I. Cruikshank del., ...

Print shows a man, a sansculotte, in ragged red, white, and blue stripe clothing, he holds a spiked club in one hand, wears pistols in his belt on which is written "War Eternal War" and he has a dead infant stu... More

A republican beau - a picture of Paris for 1794 / I. Cruikshank del., British Cartoon Print

A republican beau - a picture of Paris for 1794 / I. Cruikshank del., ...

Print shows a man, a sansculotte, in ragged red, white, and blue stripe clothing, he holds a spiked club in one hand, wears pistols in his belt on which is written "War Eternal War" and he has a dead infant stu... More

L'Intérieur du comité révolutionnaire. Scène derniere

L'Intérieur du comité révolutionnaire. Scène derniere

Print shows two men pointing out others among a group of revolutionaries to be arrested, perhaps as a backlash to the reign of terror instigated by Robespierre and his followers. Overlooking the scene from a sh... More

French Revolution from "Parijs tijdens de Roode Terreur"

French Revolution from "Parijs tijdens de Roode Terreur"

This image has been taken from scan 000011 from volume 01 of "Parijs tijdens de Roode Terreur". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British Library's... More

French liberty, British Cartoon Print, engraving, Library of Congress

French liberty, British Cartoon Print, engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows, on the right "Liberty is torn from her Temple by a hired band of Ruffians bound & going to be Sacrificed to the rage of these Ignorant People; ..." and on the left, artists and artisans, a mother w... More

Jean Baptiste Huet - Comité de l'an deuxieme

Jean Baptiste Huet - Comité de l'an deuxieme

Print showing a man presenting a certificate of citizenship to the Committee of Public Safety or Revolutionary Tribunal during it's second year of existence (1794-1795). Three men are sitting at the table and t... More

L'Intérieur du comité révolutionnaire. Scène derniere

L'Intérieur du comité révolutionnaire. Scène derniere

Print shows two men pointing out others among a group of revolutionaries to be arrested, perhaps as a backlash to the reign of terror instigated by Robespierre and his followers. Overlooking the scene from a sh... More