File:Sans-culottes, feeding Europe with the bread of liberty (BM 1851,0901.641).jpg
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editSans-culottes, feeding Europe with the bread of liberty ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Print made by: James Gillray
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Title |
Sans-culottes, feeding Europe with the bread of liberty |
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Description |
English: Five groups, one in each corner, with a central group which represents John Bull, standing full face, between Sheridan (left) and Fox (right), who are forcibly feeding him with the bread of liberty. Both are ragged and bare-legged sansculottes, wearing bonnets-rouges. Each forces a small loaf inscribed 'Liberty', on the point of a dagger, into John's gaping mouth, dipping a hand into his coat-pocket. In the background, standing on a barren plain, are a gibbet (left) and Temple Bar (right).
Hand-coloured etching |
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Depicted people | Associated with: Charles II, Duke of Brunswick-Luneberg | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1793 date QS:P571,+1793-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1851,0901.641 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) For the foreign policy of the Girondins see BMSat 8136. The print precedes the declaration of war on Holland (1 Feb.), but not the intention of the French to promote a revolution there: the Austrian Netherlands were occupied in Nov. and on 15 Dec. the Convention passed a decree that in all territories occupied by French troops the new French revolutionary institutions should be established: the threat to Holland was clear, cf. BMSat 8313. The French seized Nice without resistance on 29 Sept. 1792, occupied Savoy, and on 27 Nov. decreed their annexation to France. The Convention hoped to provoke a revolution in Rome, and a threatening letter (composed by Mme Roland) was addressed to the Pope (27 Nov. 1792). Sorel, 'L'Europe et la Rév. française', 1908, iii. 208-12. Cf. BMSat 8821. Grego, 'Gillray', p. 165. Wright and Evans, No. 95. Muller, 5309 A. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830. Reproduced, 'Social England', ed. Traill, 1904, v. 503. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-641 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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