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The heroic Charlotte la Cordé upon her trial at the bar of the Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris, July 17th, 1793 for having rid the world of that monster of atheism and murder the regicide Marat, whom she stabbed in a bath where he had retired on account of a leprosy with which Heaven had begun the punishment of his crimes
Title
The heroic Charlotte la Cordé upon her trial at the bar of the Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris, July 17th, 1793 [graphic] : for having rid the world of that monster of atheism and murder the regicide Marat, whom she stabbed in a bath where he had retired on account of a leprosy with which Heaven had begun the punishment of his crimes / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.
Publication
[London] : Publishd. July 29th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street, [29 July 1793]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 31.3 x 36.5 cm, on sheet 32 x 38 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title etched above image.
One line of quoted text below title: "The noble enthusiasm with which this woman met the charge, & the elevated disdain with which she treated the self created tribunal, struck the whole assembly with terror & astonishment."
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge.
Exhibited: "Third Party Politics: France, England, and America in the Age of Revolution," Bowdoin College Museum of Art, ME, April - July 2009.
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
A scene of the crowded interior of the Revolutionary Tribunal during the trial of Charlotte Corday for the murder of Jean Marat. Corday stands at the bar, her wrists in chains, as she confronts the three judges, grotesque figures -- a barber, a tailor, and a butcher. Marat's body lies between them on a wooden bedstead, his blood stained shirt on a pike.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 17, 2007
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7, no. 8336
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, p. 174
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Judicial proceedings.
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1793.
Etchings - England - London - 1793.
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