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.
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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.

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1792

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Photo12/Liszt Collection/Quint Lox Limited

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