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Frontispiece to Reflections on the French Revolution   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Frederick George Byron

Published by: William Holland
Title
Frontispiece to Reflections on the French Revolution
Description
English: Burke (right) kneels on one knee in profile to the left with his hands clasped, gazing ecstatically at a vision of Marie Antoinette (left) who stands upon clouds, crowned and irradiated, wearing Greek draperies; she lifts a veil with one hand and looks down graciously at Burke. A cherub flies above him, holding a firebrand to his head, from which gush sparks. Beneath the title is etched the famous passage beginning 'It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France . . .' and ending 'I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. - But the age of Chivalry is gone - Burke on the Revolution in France. Page 112.' 2 November 1790
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Depicted people Representation of: Edmund Burke
Date 1790
date QS:P571,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 365 millimetres
Width: 255 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1868,0808.5971
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

Burke's 'Reflections' was published on 1 Nov. 1790, having been much talked of before publication. The proofs had been sent to Francis, who wrote 19 Feb. 1790, 'all that you say of the Queen is pure foppery'. See Burke, 'Correspondence', 1844, iii. 130. The passage was much discussed, see Walpole, 'Letters', xiv. 329. For the famous book (provoked by Price's sermon, see BMSat 7629, &c), see BMSats 7678, 7679, 7685, 7686, 7688, 7689, 7690, 7824, 7833, 7855, 7858, 7859, 7864, 7868, 7888, 7913.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5971
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