File:La Place Victoire à Paris (BM 1937,1018.1).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file (2,500 × 1,876 pixels, file size: 724 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
La Place Victoire à Paris   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist

Print made by: Thomas Rowlandson

Published by: Samuel Alken
Title
La Place Victoire à Paris
Description
English: An arc of the symmetrical houses of the Place des Victoires (built by Mansard in 1686) forms a background to an animated scene, the principal group being round the statue (burlesqued) of 'Louis le Grand'. A charming lady walks (right ot left) with her hand on the arm of a grim abbe, whose hands are in a muff. A two-wheeled chair is pulled by one man and pushed by two others; its occupant, a lean Frenchman, looks up ecstatically at the statue. A stout English tourist wearing jack-boots and a lady in a riding-habit watch the scene, amused. Their mastiff looks threateningly at a slim greyhound. Beside them stands a bare-footed monk. In the middle distance (right) three monks, the leader holding a crucifix, file past a coach at the back of which four footmen stand, one behind the other; the occupants, a lady and gentleman, face each other in animated conversation. In the foreground (left), beside the overturned stool of a 'dècrotteur', a grotesque mannikin fiddles to a dancing dog. The towers and roof of Notre Dame are seen above the houses in the background, a topographical impossibility. November 1789
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint
Date 1789
date QS:P571,+1789-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 420 millimetres
Width: 568 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1937,1018.1
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) The statue was pulled down by the mob on 11 Aug. 1792, see pl. to 'Les Révolutions de Paris', No. 161, reproduced E. F. Henderson, 'Symbol and Satire in the French Revolution', 1912, p. 263. The two-wheeled chair or 'brouette' of Paris was an object of ridicule to the English tourist, see BMSat 4932; Cole called it 'one of the most whimsical conveyances I ever saw, very little superior to a wheelbarrow', 'Journal of my Journey to Paris in 1765', 1931, p. 49. Cf. BMSat 4919, after Bunbury, also of the Place des Victoires.

Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 262-6.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1937-1018-1
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Licensing

[edit]
This image is in the public domain because it is a mere mechanical scan or photocopy of a public domain original, or – from the available evidence – is so similar to such a scan or photocopy that no copyright protection can be expected to arise. The original itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

This tag is designed for use where there may be a need to assert that any enhancements (eg brightness, contrast, colour-matching, sharpening) are in themselves insufficiently creative to generate a new copyright. It can be used where it is unknown whether any enhancements have been made, as well as when the enhancements are clear but insufficient. For known raw unenhanced scans you can use an appropriate {{PD-old}} tag instead. For usage, see Commons:When to use the PD-scan tag.

Note: This tag applies to scans and photocopies only. For photographs of public domain originals taken from afar, {{PD-Art}} may be applicable. See Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current18:56, 14 May 2020Thumbnail for version as of 18:56, 14 May 20202,500 × 1,876 (724 KB)Copyfraud (talk | contribs)British Museum public domain uploads (Copyfraud/BM) Satirical prints in the British Museum 1789 #8,641/12,043

You cannot overwrite this file.

The following page uses this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:La_Place_Victoire_à_Paris_(BM_1937,1018.1).jpg&oldid=929953673"