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A Paris belle
Title
A Paris belle [graphic] / Miss Mary Stokes delt.
Publication
[London] : Pubd. Feby. 26th, 1794, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street, [26 February 1794]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; oval image 13.3 x 12 cm, on plate 25.0 x 18 cm, on sheet 34.6 x 25 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
Companion print to: "A Paris beau."
Provenance
From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Summary
"Design in an irregular oval. A woman (bust) glares fiercely to the left, her mouth closed and drawn down. Her cap and fichu are decked with tricolour ribbons, and in her cap is a dagger, point upward and dripping blood. Above the design: 'Des Tetes! - du Sang! - la Mort! - à la Lanterne! - à la Guillotine. - point de Reine! - Je suis la Dèesse de la Libertè [cf. BMSat 8350] - l'egalité! - que Londres soit brulê! - que Paris soit Libre!! - Vive la Guillotine! - '."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 29, 2015
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7, no. 8431
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, p. 179
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1794.
Etchings - England - London - 1794.
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