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Frontispiece To Reflections On The French Revolution

Frontispiece To Reflections On The French Revolution

Shared By: LibraryOfCongress Collection 12-24-2009

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TITLE:  Frontispiece to Reflections on the French revolution CALL NUMBER:  PC 1 - 7675 (A size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-ppmsca-05425 (digital file from original print) RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY:  Print shows Edmund Burke on bended knee as though proposing to a vision which appears before him of Marie Antoinette, while a cherub touches his head with a firebrand emitting the sparks of romance. MEDIUM:  1 print : etching, hand-colored. CREATED/PUBLISHED:  London : Pubd. by Willm. Holland No. 50 Oxford St., in whose rooms may be seen the largest collection in Europe of caricatures, admit 1 sh., 1790 Novembr. the 2. NOTES: Title from item. Includes excerpt: "Burke on the Revolution in France, page 112." Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7675 Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). SUBJECTS: Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797. Marie Antoinette,--Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France,--1755-1793. Love--1790. Angels--1790. France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799. FORMAT: Caricatures 1790.Etchings British Hand-colored 1790. REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from original print) ppmsca 05425 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.05425 CONTROL #:  2004669854