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  • Robespierre lying on a wooden bench being interrogated by the Committee of Public Safety. Wood engraving.
  • Maximilien-Marie-Isidore de Robespierre. Lithograph by H. Grévedon, 1824.
  • The arrest of Robespierre after his failed suicide attempt. Steel engraving by A. Revel after T. Johannot.
  • The followers of Robespierre entering the prison cell in which Loizerolles father and son are kept to take the son away for execution. Stipple engraving by G. Aliprandi after J.H. Fragonard.
  • Mercury, an agent of the Terror, carries Capucin Chabot naked towards a furnace; recording the turnover of human life during the Terror in the French Revolution. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1794.
  • Larevellière-Lépeaux sits in a disordered quack doctor's room, in the presence of seven wounded French generals, one of them vomiting; representing French defeats in 1799 and Bonaparte's failed imperial ambitions in the east. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.