Cloture de la Salle des Jacobins,dans la nuit du 27 au 28 Juillet 1794, ou du 9 au 19 Thermidor, an 2. de la République.
Duplesi-Bertaux inv. & del. Malapeau Sculp.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Etching. 230 x 300mm (9½ x 11¾").
The Jacobin Club, the most famous and influential political club in the development of the French Revolution, which provided the leadership for the Reign of Terror. The sign outside the building reads: 'Société des Jacobins/ Unité, Liberté, Egalité, Indivisibilité/ de la République, Fraternité ou la Mort'. Eventually the other Republicans attacked the club and shutting it down. Robespierre, the Jacobin leader, was shot in the jaw (possibly self-inflicted) and was guillotined the next day. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
[Ref: 28240] £65.00
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Etching. 230 x 300mm (9½ x 11¾").
The Jacobin Club, the most famous and influential political club in the development of the French Revolution, which provided the leadership for the Reign of Terror. The sign outside the building reads: 'Société des Jacobins/ Unité, Liberté, Egalité, Indivisibilité/ de la République, Fraternité ou la Mort'. Eventually the other Republicans attacked the club and shutting it down. Robespierre, the Jacobin leader, was shot in the jaw (possibly self-inflicted) and was guillotined the next day. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
[Ref: 28240] £65.00