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Summary
The blood of the murdered crying for vengeance
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| Artist |
Print made by: James Gillray
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| Title |
The blood of the murdered crying for vengeance |
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| Description |
English: The head of Louis XVI (a portrait) lies at the foot of the guillotine, a corner of the scaffold forming the base of the design. The guillotine is realistically drawn; the body of the King, hands tied, lies on the low platform behind the machine, the legs being cut off by the left margin. The blade and head drip with blood, which ascends in a broad crimson swirl across the design, expanding into clouds of smoke as it rises. On this is etched: 'Whither, - O Whither shall my Blood ascend for Justice? - my Throne is seized on, by my Murderers; my Brothers are driven \ into exile; - my unhappy Wife & innocent Infants are shut up in the horrors of a Dungeon; - while Robbers & Assassins are sheathing \ their Daggers in the bowels of my Country! - Ah! ruined, desolated Country! dearest object of my heart! whose misery was to me the \ sharpest pang in death! what will become of thee? - O Britons! vice-gerents of eternal-Justice! arbiters of the world! - look \ down from that height of power to which you are raised, & behold me here! - deprived of Life & of Kingdom, see where \ I lie; full low, festering in my own Blood! - which flies to your august tribunal for Justice! - By your affection for your own \ Wives & Children - rescue mine: - by your love for your Country, by the blessings of that true Liberty which you possess, - by the \ virtues which adorn the British Crown, - by all that is Sacred, & all that is dear to you - revenge the blood of a Monarch most I undeservedly butchered, - and rescue the Kingdom of France, from being the prey of Violence, Usurpation & Cruelty.'
Hand-coloured etching and engraving |
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| Depicted people | Associated with: Charles X, King of France and Navarre | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1793 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Prints and Drawings |
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| Accession number |
1868,0808.6277 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) For the execution of Louis XVI see BMSat 8297, &c. Lord Holland writes: 'The advocates for war seemed to feel more pleased at the hold this event gave them on the favours of the publick than grieved at the catastrophe itself.' 'Memoirs of the Whig Party', i. 27. Grego, 'Gillray', pp. 166-7. Wright and Evans, No. 97. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6277 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission ( Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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