File:French Liberty. British Slavery (BM 1868,0808.6253).jpg
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[edit]French Liberty. British Slavery
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Artist |
Print made by: James Gillray
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Title |
French Liberty. British Slavery |
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Description |
English: A design in two compartments. On the left a lean and ragged sansculotte, seated on a stool before a few sticks which burn on an open hearth (right), is ravenously eating raw onions, while he warms his bare toes at the fire. His finger- and toe-nails are long talons. He wears a bonnet rouge with a tricolour cockade, a long queue of unkempt hair is tied with a ribbon. From his pocket issue strips of paper inscribed '4 Sous', '3 Sous', and 'Assignats'. He says: "O Sacre Dieu! - vat blessing be de Liberte vive le Assemblè Nationale! - no more Tax! no more Slavery! - all Free Citizen! ha hah! by Gar, how ve live! - ve svim in de Milk & Honey!" Beside him on the ground (left) a sword lies across a fiddle. Over the fireplace is a confused map inscribed 'Map of the French Conquests'. Behind him (left) on a rough table is a chamber-pot filled with snails. The room is poverty-stricken with a broken casement window and a wall whose dilapidated plaster shows bricks.
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Date |
1792 date QS:P571,+1792-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.6253 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) Grego, 'Gillray', p. 154. Wright and Evans, No. 94. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830. Reproduced, Fuchs, p. 249. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6253 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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