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Mid-19th century French anti-British satire
£180
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A French satire blaming England for the anti-monarchist revolutions of 1848. A British officer with a money bag stands behind Lady Scord, a Gorgon using bellows to stoke a small furnace marked 'Civil War', which spews 'Revolutionary Propaganda' towards Continental Europe and Ireland. On the other side of the English Channel are men representing Germany, Russia and Turkey working a fire pump to spray water onto the streams of lava. In the centre is Marianne, he national personification of the French Republic, pouring water on Rome, a reference to the French siege of Rome in 1849, which crushed the Roman Republic. Looking on are a Swiss woman and Ferdinand IV of Naples, monarch of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Plate 6 from the 'Allegorie'.
Additional information
| Dimensions | 330 × 230 mm |
|---|---|
| Cartographer | |
| Date | 1850 |
| Extra Info | Lady Scord (La Discorde), Faisant De L'Alchimie Politique. |
| Publication | Paris: Fernique et Cie, c.1850. Hand coloured lithograph., 230 x 330mm. |
| Condition | A good example. |
| References | – |
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