Caption
The genius of France extirpating despotism tyranny and oppression from the face of the earth Or the royal warriors defeated, Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764 1811, engraving 1792, a woman wearing a liberty cap, representing the genius of France, holding a cat o' nine tails in one hand and the reins of a donkey in the other; on this donkey and another bucking in the background are several monarchs identified as Prussia, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Brunswick, Turkey, Spain, and, falling to the ground, China; Louis XVI lies on the ground beneath the donkey held by the woman; in the left foreground, sitting on the ground tearing her hair is Marie I of Portugal.
Date
1792
Credit line
Photo12/Liszt Collection/Quint Lox Limited
Reference
LZT16A00_225
License type
Rights managed
Available size
53,9Mb (2,2Mb) / 16,7in x 12,6in / 5000 x 3771 (300dpi)