Etched by Gillray after a design suggested by J.H. Frere.
Print shows Hoche, seated on a rainbow which spans a landscape undergoing military devastation, playing a guillotine as if it were a lyre. He has just kicked off his two heavy spurred jack-boots which fall towards the ground and a falling noose is about to encircle his neck. His head is framed by the bloody heads of Jacobin cherubs and above him to the left are armies of Jacobins, naked except for bonnets-rouges and huge sabots recede in perspective. At right are massed the headless victims of the revolution with blood gushing from their necks. They kneel in obeisance to Hoche, wearing sabots; all hold palm-branches and bonnets-rouges. Above his head is the Jacobin table of the law, which dominates the design. It is in two tables, and on it are inscribed a reversal of the Commandments: 'Thou shalt Murder' [&c.]. Above it is a triangle, enclosing the word 'equality', with a plumb-line to show that it is a level. This is framed in a glory whose rays are represented by daggers and bayonets. Three concentric circles of winged heads surround the glory; the heads are of apes, asses, and goats. A monster with webbed wings, hooves, and a tail kneels on each side of the table of the law. On the ground beneath the rainbow the republican army is charging unarmed fugitives. In the foreground lie a heap of headless corpses and a pile of heads. Soldiers fire at a prisoner. From the branch of a tree hang two corpses; a sign points to 'la Vendee'. Churches and houses are blazing. A river divides the landscape, fugitives are driven into it, and bodies float down the stream. Above the blazing scene a corpse-like Fury strides through the air, a sword of flame in one hand, a bottle of vitriol or poison in the other. Liquid gushes also from her hideous pendent breasts, serpents form her hair, and fire issues from her mouth. She is followed by a swarm of little monsters who, like her, have small webbed wings. These hold firebrands, chains, halters, daggers, &c. As a pendant to these creatures, a swarm of naked and winged Jacobins fly towards the ground on the left of the river, scattering 'Assignats'.