The title continues: 'we explain de rights of man to de noblesse. - scene. The house of lords. ' under the title: 'description. - a guillotine, which is placed on the throne; the royal chairs being removed, pour accomoder les etrangers, (in english) to accommodate the strangers. Two turkish mutes, with strangling bowstrings, each his hand on his mouth, stand as supporters. The house empty of peers. On a board is written, "solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant". (in english)" they (that is, the french) "create solitude, and call it peace". - the cap of liberty [liberté] above the canopy, below which is painted in capital letters, "confusion to all order". - a french admiral [right], looking at the tapestry, which represents the defeat of ye spanish invincible armada, & the portraits of the immortal english commanders, says "me like not de omen; destroy it. " french soldiers with swords, pikes, & screwed bayonets, attack the tapestry, on one side of the room [right]. A sea captain, on the top of a ladder [left], tears down ye tapestry from above; his lieutenant sets fire to it below, & at the same time pulls the foot of the ladder, to break his superior's neck; saying, "this is an easier way of getting preferment than de english way. " - "un commandant en chef (in english) the commander in chief, in his full republican uniform, pointing at the mace says, "here take away this bauble; but if there be any gold on it, send it to my lodging. " - a [ragged] french soldier carries it away on his shoulder. The bust of felton [assassin of buckingham, 1628] on the table, in the middle between those of damien & ravillac. ' [dalrymple, op. Cit. , pp. 3-4. ] see bmsat 9180. 1 march 1798
hand-coloured etching. Date: 1798. Dimensions: Height: 347 mm; Width: 403 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Robert François Damien. Collection: British Museum. Consequences of a successful French invasion. - No. I - plate 2d. (BM 1868,0808.10379 1)
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