Guillotine Collection

Overtime at a Christmas cracker factory by William Heath Rob
Colour illustration by William Heath Robinson depicting one of his usual contraptions designed to solve the increase in demand for Christmas crackers during the forthcoming festive season

The Treaty of Versailles
The terms of the Versailles treaty are equivalent to sending Germany to the guillotine. The three figures depicted in black are Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau and David Lloyd George Date: 1919

Louis XVI does his Best
Allegorical depiction of Louis XVI doing his best for his country, conferring with Justice, Economy, Truth and Religion : alas, they cannot save him from the guillotine. Date: 4 May 1789

Emma Peel discussing a model guillotine with a protagonist (played by Edwin Richfield), in a scene from The Avengers action TV series, (played by Diana Rigg). Date: circa 1966

CHARLES VALAZE
CHARLES ELEONORE DUFRICHE VALAZE - French revolutionary statesman, condemned to the guillotine for his moderate views, stabbed himself to death in view of the court. Date: 1751 - 1793

MARIE ANTOINETTE & SON
Marie Antoinette says farewell to her son Louis before they part for ever - she to die on the guillotine, he in wretched imprisonment. Date: 16 October 1793

JEANNE-MARIE ROLAND French revolutionary who, having the misfortune to be the wrong kind of revolutionary, dies by the guillotine Date: 1754 - 1793

Madame Roland (Marie-Jeanne Phlippon), French
Madame Roland (Marie-Jeanne Phlippon Roland), French Revolutionary and Girondist 1754-1793. Handcoloured lithograph from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroixs Costumes Historiques de la France

The Reds of the Midi, An Episode of the French Revolution
Poster, The Reds of the Midi, An Episode of the French Revolution, Felix Gras, published by William Heinemann, London

GIRONDINS CONDEMNED
The revolutionary tribunal condemns 22 Girondins to the guillotine. Date: 31 October 1793

GUILLOTINE AT ORANGE
In many provinces, distant from Paris, the Revolution is opposed. Here at Orange a guillotine is erected to discourage the recalcitrant. Date: circa 1791

GIRONDINS ARRESTED
Dumouriez and other Girondin deputies are arrested by order of the Assemblee and conveyed to prison, whence few will re-emerge except to go to the guillotine. Date: June 1793

ARISTOCRATS IN PRISON
THE REIGN OF TERROR : Aristocrats and other opponents of the Revolution wait in prison until its their turn to be carted to the guillotine. Date: 1793 - 1794

RIDING TO GUILLOTINE
The last wagon-load of victims are transported to the guillotine - despite the objections of the populace. Date: circa 1794

COMMUNE / GUILLOTINE BURNT
A crowd of National Guardsmen and citizens look on as a guillotine is ceremoniously burnt before the statue of Voltaire Date: 7 April 1871

Cartoon, Promis d Horrors of the French Invasion, or, Forcible Reasons for negotiating a Regicide Peace, Vide, The Authority of Edmund Burke, by James Gillray

CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878). Cartoon called A Radical Reformer, i.e. A Neck or Nothing Man! Dedicated to the Heads of the Nation. It was published by Thomas Tegg of Cheapside on 17 September 1819

The Burning of the Guillotine on the Place Voltaire; Paris C
Illustration showing the Communards burning a guillotine in the Place Voltaire, during the Paris Commune of 1871. The Communards burned or destroyed a number of symbols of power in Paris

Cartoon by Harold Auerbach, The Era of June? A comment on the controversial political issues of tariff reform, free trade, home rule and socialism. Date: 1910

Cartoon by Harold Auerbach, The Era of 1910? A comment on the controversial political issues of tariff reform, free trade, home rule and socialism. Date: 1910

Phil. Fabre D eglantine
PHILLIPE FABRE D EGLANTINE French actor-manager who ill-advisedly exchanged the stage for the political arena, where his extreme views led him to the guillotine. Date: 1750 - 1794

C J M Barbaroux
Charles Jean Marie BARBAROUX (1767-1794) French scientific writer and revolutionary who joined the Girondins and alas, paid the price on the guillotine at Bordeaux. Date: circa 1790

M Elie Guadet
MARGUERITE ELIE GUADET French Girondist statesmen who went to the guillotine for his political opinions Date: 1758 - 1794

Andre Chenier (Johannot)
ANDRE CHENIER French writer and revolutionary who protested against the excesses of the Revolution and now sits in prison awaiting the guillotine Date: 1762 - 1794

Industry / Paper 1827
A paper maker measuring and cutting sheets of paper on a large guillotine. Date: 1827

Georges Couthon / Duereux
GEORGES COUTHON ruthless French revolutionary, loyal supporter of Robespierre whom he eventually accompanied to the guillotine. Date: 1755 - 1794

Guillotine Victims
A cartload of condemned aristocrats trundles through the streets of Paris on its way to the guillotine Date: 1793

GUILLOTIN, Joseph Ignace (1738-1814). Guillotine s
GUILLOTIN, Joseph Ignace (1738-1814). Guillotines inventor. Unknown painter. Oil on canvas. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Mus饠 Carnavalet (Carnavalet Museum)

Paris, France - Chapelle Expiatoire of Louis XVI. 1829

Anarchist Outrages 2
Ravachol (on left) and fellow- anarchists on trial for bomb outrages : Ravachol is spared the guillotine through extenuating circumstances but faces other charges. Date: 1892

Robespierre and Flowers
MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE French revolutionary statesman, whose arrogance ultimately took him, too, to the guillotine. Date: 1758 - 1794

Rabaut De St Etienne
JEAN-PAUL RABAUT DE SAINT- ETIENNE - French churchman and statesman, who sought to be a moderating influence in government so what could they do but guillotine him. Date: 1743 - 1793

Duc Orleans Egalite
LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH, duc d ORLEANS - sympathised with the Revolution and changed name to Philippe Egalite, but this did not save him from the guillotine. Date: 1747 - 1793

Marquise De Montesson
CHARLOTTE JEANNE BERAUD de la HAYE de RIOU, marquise de MONTESSON - wife of duc d Orleans, saved from the guillotine by Josephine, author of several plays. Date: 1737 - 1805

Fouquier-Tinville - 3
ANTOINE QUENTIN FOUQUIER- TINVILLE - French lawyer, revolutionary statesman who condemned countless victims to the guillotine but ultimately became one of them himself. Date: 1746 - 1795

Fouquier-Tinville - 2
ANTOINE QUENTIN FOUQUIER- TINVILLE - French lawyer, revolutionary statesman who condemned countless victims to the guillotine but ultimately became one of them himself. Date: 1746 - 1795

Fouquier-Tinville - 1
ANTOINE-QUENTIN FOUQUIER- TINVILLE, revolutionary lawyer and statesman, prosecutor who sent thousands to the guillotine and was eventually guillotined himself. Date: 1746 - 1795

Burning Guillotine
The Paris Communards burn the guillotine - symbol of the despised government - in the place Voltaire. Date: March-April 1871

Girandins Arrested 1793
The Girandins taken to the guillotine. Date: 31 May 1793

Preparing and spinning flax - Slovakia
Preparing and spinning flax - Kendertorok Ponikon, Zolyom County, Slovakia - formerly part of the Hungarian Empire. The woman on the right is breaking the flax

Marie Antoinette on her way to the scaffold, Paris, 1793
Engraving showing Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), the wife of King Louis XVI of France, being taken from her prison cell to the guillotine, October 1793

Loterie LA Guillotine
During the Revolution, an enterprising citizen organises a Loterie de la Sainte Guillotine : he reads out the names of the winners

Revolutionary Tribunal
The Revolutionary Tribunal in the Abbaye prison, Paris, is a popular attraction : what fun, to see people sentenced to the guillotine !

A Representative
Passers-by look with more apprehension than affection at a typical representative of the people who could send them to the guillotine without turning a hair

Jean Francois De Lacroix
JEAN FRANCOIS DE LA CROIX French revolutionary statesman whose views earned him a rendezvous with Madame Guillotine

Burning the Gullotine
The guillotine, symbol of oppression, is burnt by the Communards

Jacobins medal
The Club or Societe des Jacobins, also calling themselves Montagnards, wear this medal with pride - perhaps even as they go to the guillotine

Girondins Condemned
The revolutionary tribunal arrests 22 Girondins and condemns them to the guillotine

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