Summoning to Execution Still Image

An engraving shows a jailer reading an execution summons to a seated, restrained prisoner while distraught women weep and cling nearby in a dim stone prison chamber.

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Title

Summoning to Execution

Description

One of the most fearful parts of the Terror was its unpredictability. Many were swept up in suspicion, including unexpected, even nighttime arrests. As reality and imagination merged, this fear of the uncertainty of the era became an important part of the story, as this print in English testifies.

Source

Cornell 4606, Box 17

Date

January 1794

Relation

http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/186/

Identifier

186

Citation

“Summoning to Execution,” LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOUTION, accessed November 9, 2026, https://revolution.chnm.org/d/186.