File:Buonaparte closing the farce of Egalité.jpg

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English: Exit libertè a la Francois!—or—Buonaparte closing the farce of Egalitè, at St. Cloud near Paris Novr. 10th. 1799 / Js. Gillray inv' & f'.

SUMMARY: British satire shows Napoleon with his grenadiers driving the members of the Council of Five Hundred from the Orangery at St. Cloud at bayonet point. A drum is labeled "Vive la Liberte," and papers under foot read "Resignation des Directoires" and "Un liste de Membres du Conseil des Cinque Cents." On November 10, 1799, in a move known as the Coup d'État of Eighteenth Brumaire, Napoleon seized control of the French government and installed himself as First Consul, thereafter governing as a dictator. James Gillray was the dominant caricaturist of his period, producing popular savage cartoons of the English court of George III and later of Napoleon and the French Revolution.

MEDIUM: 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; 25.2 × 36 cm (sheet)

CREATED/PUBLISHED: [London] : Publishd by H. Humphrey 27 St. James's Street, 1799 Novr. 21st.

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Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9426

Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress).

Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).

Unprocessed in WOOD/Gillray.118

Hoff, Syd. Editorial and political cartooning, p. 38; Parton, James, Caricature and other comic art, p. 153, 267–68 — ljr
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Source Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-07510 (digital file from original print), archival TIFF version (37 MB), cropped, and converted to JPEG with the GIMP 2.4.5, image quality 88.
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James Gillray  (1756–1815)  wikidata:Q520806 s:en:Author:James Gillray q:en:James Gillray
 
James Gillray
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James Gilray; Gillay; Gillray
Description British caricaturist and engraver
Date of birth/death 13 August 1756 Edit this at Wikidata 1 June 1815 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London London
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