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  • 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.
  • English families taken as hostages in the French Revolution, imprisoned in the orphanage of Arras. Engraving by P. Maxell, 1802, after T. Snagg.
  • The head of King Louis XVI being cut off by a guillotine. Etching by James Gillray, 1793.
  • A mock escutcheon for a united, British republican college of health practitioners; representing British debate over the French Revolution. Coloured etching, 1798.
  • The Bastille, Paris. Line engraving by J.F. Borgnet after J.M. Gudin (?).
  • Jean Sylvain Bailly, Mayor of Paris, with his mistress, both represented as chickens. Etching, 1791.
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Stipple engraving by C.F.G. Levachez and etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux, 1798.
  • Seven clergymen watch as a physician bathes the feet of a sick, aristocratic lady; suggesting the uncertainty of the clergy faced with the ousting of the aristocracy in France. Coloured etching by S.J., 1791.
  • The assassination of the Deputy Jean-Bertrand Féraud in the National Convention, Paris, in 1795. Aquatint by J. Card.
  • École de Médecine, Paris. Lithograph.
  • The gaoler opening the door of the prison cell to find Condorcet lying on his bed, having killed himself. Stipple engraving by G. Aliprandi after J.H. Fragonard.
  • Maria-Theresa of Savoy-Carignan, Princess of Lamballe, is led out through the gates of La Force prison to the street in Paris where she is killed by the Revolutionary mob. Wood engraving.
  • 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 (?).
  • 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.
  • The murder of Maria-Theresa of Savoy-Carignan, Princess of Lamballe: French revolutionaries dragging her naked, headless, body along the streets of Paris with her head on a pike. Etching by T. Wallis after W.M. Craig, 1815.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Stipple engraving by C.F.G. Levachez and etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux, 1798.
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • Voltaire instructing the infant Jacobinism. Coloured etching after J. Gillray, ca. 1800.
  • Cecilia Renaud is apprehended by soldiers after being suspected of intending to assassinate Robespierre. Stipple engraving by G. Aliprandi after J.H. Fragonard.
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • A mock escutcheon for a united, British republican college of health practitioners; representing British debate over the French Revolution. Coloured etching, 1798.