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An amphitheatrical attack on the Bastile   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: John Barlow

After: Samuel Collings
Published by: Bentley & Co
Title
An amphitheatrical attack on the Bastile
Description
English: From the 'Attic Miscellany', i. 41. A stage representation of the fall of the Bastille. At the back of the stage is the gate of a fortress flanked by pinnacled turrets, each with a cock on the summit. Next it is a flimsy timber drawbridge inscribed 'This is a Drawbridge'. In front of the gate and behind a low battlement stands the governor (de Launay), a flag inscribed


'France' over his shoulder, but holding out a cloth inscribed 'D------n You
what do you want'. In the foreground are the assailants of the Bastille with muskets, some in regimentals with cocked hats and long pigtail queues. One man in back view, striking an attitude, fires with his cane a toy cannon. They have a 'Standard of Liberty' of makeshift appearance. There are eight men on the right and two on the extreme left, one of whom holds up a cloth inscribed 'No Bastille'. On the front of the stage is a paper: 'Mr Centaur can assure the publick since his return from Paris [engraved above 'Dublin', which has been struck out] that this here Bastile is the most exactest of any of the Bastiles existin.' The actors are out of proportion to the scenery which is on a very small scale. A festooned curtain hangs above the heads of the actors. 1 November 1789


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Depicted people Associated with: Philip Astley
Date 1789
date QS:P571,+1789-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 195 millimetres
Width: 240 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5891
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) A satire on the much advertised and rival performances during the autumn of 1789 at Astley's Amphitheatre and at Hughes's Royal Circus in St. George's Fields: e.g. Astley advertised 28 and 29 Oct. as the two last days of 'the popular and much admired performances'. 'The Bastille and the head of the Governor together with that of the Prevot des Marchands; . . . the real military proceedings of the armed citizens during the three hours siege of the Bastille . . .' in six scenes. 'Morning Post', 28 Oct. 1789. For the fall of the Bastille see BMSat 7550, &c. Part of this plate was reissued in the 'Carlton House Magazine', June 1794, see 'Catalogue', vii.

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See David Bindman, 'The shadow of the guillotine', BM 1989, cat.20. The satire concerns two rival stage reconstructions of the event, one at Astley's amphitheatre, the other at Hughes' Royal Circus.
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