Reflections on the French Revolution / [I. Cruikshank].

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Isaac Cruikshank
1756?-1811?
Reflections on the French Revolution / [I. Cruikshank].
etching, hand colored
sheet: x mm (trimmed)
Peel 3412
Published: 
London : Pub Janry 1 1793 by S. W. Fores No 3 Piccadilly, [1793]
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

Full imprint reads: London Pub Janry 1 1793 by S. W. Fores No 3 Piccadilly who has again opened his Exhibition Rooms to which he has added several Hundred Old & New Subjects Admitce 1s.
Library's copy trimmed to image with loss of imprint.

Summary: 

Burke, a colossal figure, lunges forward and to the right, a dagger in each händ. Behind, the House of Commons is indicated, empty except for the Speaker (Addington) in the background, raising his arms in dismay, and Fox in the middle distance, who flees, looking over his shoulder to say, "D------me he's got the French Disorder." Burke frowns; a scroll issues from his fiercely closed lips: 'Plunderers Assassins Republicans Villians Cut Throats Levellers Regicides Lovers of Disorder Exporters of Treason & Rebellion These are Articles they Deal in. Cf. British Museum online catalog.

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