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English: Cartoon showing France, a savage virago, dandling a tiny Napoleon seated on her hand and wearing a royal robe over his military dress. Above her head she holds a rattle with bells surmounted by a crown. She grins at the mannikin, singing: ... Beside her are her spear, dripping blood, and shield, with the bleeding head of Louis XVI above a reversed crown, with the inscriptions: Vive la Republique and The last of kings.
Medium: 1 print : engraving, color.
Date London : pubd. by H. Humphrey, 1804.
Source Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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James Gillray  (1756–1815)  wikidata:Q520806 s:en:Author:James Gillray q:en:James Gillray
 
James Gillray
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James Gilray; Gillay; Gillray
Description British caricaturist and engraver
Date of birth/death 13 August 1756 Edit this at Wikidata 1 June 1815 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London London
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21:41, 28 July 2005Thumbnail for version as of 21:41, 28 July 2005816 × 1,024 (103 KB)Petrusbarbygere (talk | contribs)SUMMARY: Cartoon showing France, a savage virago, dandling a tiny Napoleon seated on her hand and wearing a royal robe over his military dress. Above her head she holds a rattle with bells surmounted by a crown. She grins at the mannikin, singing: ... Be

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