TITLE: The genius of France extirpating despotism tyranny & oppression from the face of the earth Or the royal warriors defeated CALL NUMBER: PC 1 - 8143 (B size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-6752 (color film copy transparency)LC-USZ62-123025 (b&w film copy neg.) RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY: Cartoon shows a woman wearing a liberty cap, representing the genius of France, holding a cat-o'-nine-tails in one hand and the reins of a donkey in the other; on this donkey and another bucking in the background are several monarchs identified as Prussia, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Brunswick, Turkey, Spain, and, falling to the ground, China; Louis XVI lies on the ground beneath the donkey held by the woman; in the left foreground, sitting on the ground tearing her hair is Marie I of Portugal. MEDIUM: 1 print : etching, hand-colored. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [London] : Pub. by S.W. Fores, 1792 Dec. 21. CREATOR: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?, artist. NOTES: Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 8143 Exhibit loan 4161-L. Print contains some erasures. SUBJECTS: Louis--XVI,--King of France,--1754-1793. Catherine--II,--Empress of Russia,--1729-1796. Maria--I,--Queen of Portugal,--1734-1816. Frederick William--II,--King of Prussia,--1744-1797. Marianne (French emblem)--1790-1800. France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799. FORMAT: Cartoons (Commentary) British 1790-1800.Etchings Hand-colored 1790-1800. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (color film copy transparency) cph 3g06752 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g06752 (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c23025 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c23025 CONTROL #: 99404724
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