Long Live Liberty
Title
Long Live Liberty
Description
Cartoonists extrapolated more and more on a new Louis as the Revolution went along. Here, a rather rumpled King, dressed more like a shopkeeper than a monarch, opens a cage to let liberty out. Many scholars argue that the King was already desacralized as much as a couple of decades before the Revolution. Still Louis is associated with liberty here, and this treatment was mild compared with the personal attacks and the execution that would follow.
Creator
None Identified
Source
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Date
1789
Rights
Public Domain
Relation
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/145/|de Vinck. <em>Un siècle d'histoire de France par l'estampe, 1770-1870</em>. Vol. 10 (pièces 1571-1762), Ancien Régime et Révolution
Format
JPEG
Language
French
Identifier
145
Original Format
Engraving
Physical Dimensions
18 x 14 cm
Title (French)
Vive la liberté
Citation
None Identified, “Long Live Liberty,” LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOUTION, accessed December 21, 2024, https://revolution.chnm.org/d/145.