mail_outline sales@mediastorehouse.com
P V VergniaudPIERRE VICTURNIEN VERGNIAUD French revolutionary statesman (Girondist)
Princesse De PolignacYOLANDE MARTINE GABRIELLE DE POLASTRON, duchesse de POLIGNAC - ambitious and scheming aristocrat, friend of Marie Antoinette and fellow victim of the guillotine
Family / Hamilton / 1793A family domestic scene in Britain. The children read and play musical instruments
Frenchwomen 1793Two women of revolutionary Paris
Man with Eye-GlassA man of revolutionary Paris peers scornfully through his eyeglass : a hundred years later he will sport an equally affected monocle
Marie AntoinetteMARIE ANTOINETTE, queen of France - engraved from a portrait by Vigee-Lebrun done a year before the revolution
Frenchwoman 1793The simple but graceful style favoured by ladies during the Revolutionary period
Francis Bond HeadSIR FRANCIS BOND HEAD Statesman and administrator, lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada. Date: 1793 - 1875
Charles Bonnet / BorderCHARLES BONNET Swiss naturalist and philosopher surrounded by a decorative border made up of plants and animals - the chain of nature
Dianthus ChinensisCHINA PINK
Goldoni / Comm Dell arteCARLO GOLDONI Six scenes celebrating his reform of Italian comedy in the style of Moliere, thereby superseding the older style commedia dell arte
Pitt and Fox, 1793A SMOKING CLUB A play on the word smoke which also means to mock someone : here the political antagonists are depicted attacking each other
Duke of Orleans (1794)LOUIS-PHILIPPE JOSEPH, DUKE OF ORLEANS - French revolutionary (also known as Philippe Egalite )
C15 Commercial BuildingThe Old Fountain in the Minories, London, so solidly built that three horses were needed to pull the timbers apart when it was demolished in 1793
Savoy Prison, LondonPart of the old Savoy Palace, used at this time as a military prison
Toulon Evacuated 1793SIEGE OF TOULON In the face of a fierce siege (in which the young Napoleon participates) the British are forced to evacuate Toulon
Gertruydenberg 1793GERTRUYDENBEG, Holland taken by the French
Battle of Tirlemont 1793Battles of TIRLEMONT and GOIZENHAVEN between the French and the Austrians
Camp De Perulle 1793Battle of CAMP DE PERULLE, French defeat the Piedmontese
Hippolyte PassyHIPPOLYTE PASSY French statesman
N a T ChangarnierNicolas Anne Theodule CHANGARNIER French military
H J G PatinHenri Joseph Guillaume PATIN French scholar, author, educator
Charles-Auguste PellatCHARLES-AUGUSTE PELLAT French jurist
Michel Chasles / TruchelutMICHEL CHASLES French mathematician
John MichellJOHN MICHELL astronomer, founder of the New Foundation at Queens College, Oxford
John HancockJOHN HANCOCK American soldier, statesman and governor of Massachusetts, depicted working on his accounts
Marie Antoinette / CampanaQueen of Louis XVI, in 1778, when she is 23
Marie Antoinette / JaninotQueen of Louis XVI, depicted in 1777, at age 22
Louis XVI (Miniature)LOUIS XVI
Mme Jeanne-Marie RolandJEANNE-MARIE ROLAND French saloniste & victim of the revolution, shown here at her writing desk
Smoking Club 1793 PipesA SMOKING CLUB A play on the word smoke which also means to mock someone : here the political antagonists are depicted attacking each other
Family / Hamilton / 1795A family scene, with everyone simply but elegantly dressed for quiet domestic activities, although papa gives the impression of not knowing what to do with himself
Press Freed 1793The people of Paris celebrate the freedom of the Press
Barthelemy / Sew MachineFrench tailor Barthelemy Thimonnier with his machine : he patented the first practical sewing machine in France in 1830
Carlo Goldoni / PiazzettaCARLO GOLDONI Italian playwright, who created modern Italian comedy in the style of Moliere
Carlo Goldoni / Hunt ClarkCARLO GOLDONI Italian playwright, who created modern Italian comedy in the style of Moliere
Carlo Goldoni / FediCARLO GOLDONI Italian playwright, who created modern Italian comedy in the style of Moliere
Gilbert White of SelbornGILBERT WHITE OF SELBORNE English Naturalist. No known portrait exists, but this engraving appears as the frontispiece to an early edition of his writings
Marie-Olympe GougesMARIE-OLYMPE GOUGES French writer and revolutionary, who quarreled with Robespierre and was guillotined
Henry Francis LyteHENRY FRANCIS LYTE Irish divine, author of the hymn Abide with me
Racial / E Africa / VariousMalagasy People; King Baubau, a Madagascar Lady, and three ladies working, one with a baby
Jeanne-Marie RolandJEANNE-MARIE ROLAND French social leader
Triumph of Marat 1793The triumph of Marat - he is borne aloft by enthusiastic fellow-revolutionaries. But pride cometh before a fall - he will soon be murdered by Charlotte Corday
Social / Britain Vicar 18CA farmers wife wears a white gown & apron, black pelerine, shoes with pointed toes & vamps, a mob cap, straw hat & pink belt. Her son wears a smock & blue stockings
Revolutionary CostumeCostumes of the French Revolutionaries: phrygian caps with tricolor cockades, pantaloons (sans-culottes), greatcoat, breeches are worn with a short military jacket
Cambridge / Adolphus 1793ADOLPHUS FREDERICK, duke of CAMBRIDGE 7th son of George III
W Murray Earl Mansfield1ST EARL OF MANSFIELD William Murray M.P. and lord chief justice
Chappe Optical TelegraphThe optical telegraph of Claude Chappe and his brother, erected on the Eglise de Montmartre, is tested by the French authorities and his system is widely adopted
