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  • Prisoners in the French Revolution awaiting the summons to the guillotine. Engraving by Masson after Charles Muller.
  • M0016661: Map of the ancient provinces of France and the departments that replaced them after the French Revolution
  • The Holy Ampulla (Sainte Ampoule) at Reims, used for anointing the kings of France before the French Revolution. Etching, 1793.
  • The Holy Ampulla (Sainte Ampoule) at Reims, used for anointing the kings of France before the French Revolution. Etching, 1793.
  • A man so engrossed in news of the French Revolution that he unwittingly sets his wig alight with his candle. Etching, 1789.
  • A mock escutcheon for a united, British republican college of health practitioners; representing British debate over the French Revolution. Coloured etching, 1798.
  • A man so engrossed in news of the French Revolution that he unwittingly sets his wig alight with his candle. Etching, 1789.
  • A mock escutcheon for a united, British republican college of health practitioners; representing British debate over the French Revolution. Coloured etching, 1798.
  • English families taken as hostages in the French Revolution, imprisoned in the orphanage of Arras. Engraving by P. Maxell, 1802, after T. Snagg.
  • A cart laden with casualties of the French Revolution of 1848 is driven past The National in Paris passing a lamenting crowd. Lithograph.
  • A gaoler, wearing a Phrygian cap, reading out summons for executions to distressed prisoners of the French Revolution. Line engraving by W. Greatbach after A. Johannot, 1881.
  • A fiery demon representing the chaos of the Paris Commune and more generally, the infernal results of the ideals of the French Revolution. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1871.
  • 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.
  • French Revolution: a prisoner sits in the middle of a crowded prison room as a woman nearby pleads with an official. Aquatint and etching by A. Riffaut after Ch. Muller.
  • An exhausted mother gives birth before a crowd of French officials; symbolising the birth of the ideas of the July Revolution and their troubled patrimony in the hands of contemporary politicians. Lithograph by E. Forest after J. Grandville, 1831, after Eugène Devéria, 1827.
  • An exhausted mother gives birth before a crowd of French officials; symbolising the birth of the ideas of the July Revolution and their troubled patrimony in the hands of contemporary politicians. Lithograph by E. Forest after J. Grandville, 1831, after Eugène Devéria, 1827.
  • Dr Richard Price kneeling on a large crown (with a demon on his back) to look through a peep-hole at a group of ruffians ransacking Marie Antoinette's bedroom; representing a speech by Price which allegedly advocated the French Revolution. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1790 (?).
  • Death of Marat after Pellegrini, 1794
  • Portrait of Marat making a speech by Pannier
  • A French nobleman handing his son a sword as the latter prepares to go and fight for the Americans in the American War of Independence. Line engraving by J.J. Avril after P.A. Wille, 1788.
  • The storming of the Bastille on the 14 July 1789. Line engraving with etching after H. Singleton.
  • A French soldier returning from the American War of Independence is rewarded with the Order of Saint Louis and the hand of a rich man's daughter as his bride. Line engraving by J.J. Avril, 1784, after P.A. Wille.
  • King Louis XVI of France bids his farewell to the people of Paris while ascending the stairs to the scaffold where he was guillotined on the 21 January 1793. Aquatint with engraving by C. Silanio after C. Benazech, 1793.
  • The liberation of a manacled prisoner during the taking of the Bastille on the 14 July 1789. Line engraving with etching.
  • A man is playing a fiddle as a group of men and women dance around the equestrian statue of Henri IV on the Pont Neuf in Paris. Aquatint with etching, 1822.
  • Queen Marie Antoinette led to her execution on a horse-cart on the 16th of October 1793. Aquatint with engraving by C. Silanio after Aloisin, 1793.
  • The assassination of Jean Paul Marat: Charlotte Corday is about to stab Marat in the bath. Etching after J.D. Schubert.
  • M0014005: French steelyard for weighing coins, early 19th century
  • An eminent physician looks at the tongue of an elderly hypochondriac. Colour etching after J.F. Dunant, 1823.
  • An eminent physician looks at the tongue of an elderly hypochondriac. Colour etching after J.F. Dunant, 1823.