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The Croquet Bears [in ink mss.]
The Croquet Bears [in ink mss.]
Copyright [in ink.] [n.d., c.1880.]
Lithograph. Sheet 125 x 190mm (5 x 7½"). Some foxing.
Five brown bears playing croquet.
[Ref: 41877]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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Serment du Jeu de Paume, a Versailles.
Serment du Jeu de Paume, a Versailles. le 20 Juin 1789.
Prieur inv. & del. Berthault Sculp.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Etching. Plate 240 x 285mm (9½ x 11¼"). Trimmed into plate at top, losing plate number. Foxing on right.
In June 1789, following a month-long deadlock in the States-General over constitutional reform at the royal palace of Versailles, the frustrated Third Estate (the commons), which had been locked out from the formal meeting place by King Louis XVI, declared itself a National Assembly, took over a royal tennis court, and on June 20th took an oath (serment) not to disperse till their demands were met. Three weeks later, on July 14th, a Paris mob attacked the Bastille prison. A rare image of a contemporary Real Tennis court. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
[Ref: 42161]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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