The assassination of Jean Paul Marat: Charlotte Corday is about to stab Marat in the bath. Etching after J.D. Schubert.

  • Schubert, Johann David, 1761-1822.
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[1794]
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42817i
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The assassination of Jean Paul Marat: Charlotte Corday is about to stab Marat in the bath. Etching after J.D. Schubert. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Jean Paul Marat (1743-1793), French politician, physician and journalist, a leader of the radical Montagnard faction during the French Revolution. He was assassinated by Charlotte Corday, a young Girondin conservative in 1793

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[Göttingen] : [J.C. Dieterich], [1794]

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1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 9.8 x 5.8 cm

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Marat stirbt des Tod's, den er für andere gepredigt hatte. Translation of lettering: Marat dies the death that he preached for others Bears number: No. 12

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On the same sheet as no. 42816 (this catalogue)

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Wellcome Collection 42817i

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Attributed to J.D. Schubert, as prints in the same volume of the Revolutionsalmanach are credited to his designs

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