A Republican Belle,Paris,France,1794,Isaac Cruikshank,Reign of Terror,Pistol

Title: A republican belle - a picture of Paris for 1794 / IC.
Creator(s): Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?, artist
Date Created/Published: [L]ondon : Pub. by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly, who has fitted up his Caracature Exhibition in an Entire novel stile admit 1s, NB folios lent out, 1794 March 10.
Summary: Print shows an old woman, a sansculotte, in ragged dress, her arms folded across her chest, holding a pistol in one hand, which she fires at a man lying on the ground, and a dagger in the other. There is a skull and crossbones design on her garment, she wears a miniature guillotine hanging from her neck, and claws are showing through her shoes. At a tavern in the background, men are smoking pipes and bowling with skulls beneath a sign showing the severed and bleeding head of Louis XVI and from which a naked body hangs.
Notes:
Title from item.
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8436
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
France--History--Reign of Terror, 1793-1794.
Sansculottes--1790-1800.
Etchings--Hand-colored--1790-1800.
Satires (Visual works)--British--1790-1800.
Bookmark /2004669789/
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