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Le neuf Thermidor ou la surprise Angloise   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Jean Baptiste Louvion

After: Louis Eugène Poirier
Title
Le neuf Thermidor ou la surprise Angloise
Description
English: A good-looking young Frenchman shows to a bloated John Bull an ostrich's egg, in which stands a figure of Peace, winged and naked, holding an olive branch and laurel wreath. Towering above them is an enormous ostrich, at its feet are eggs, while broken egg-shells lie in the foreground. From some of the latter (left) monsters have issued or are issuing: scaly dragons, a serpent, and a serpent-man on whom Justice is trampling. She stands holding up a pair of equally-balanced scales, while a monster emerging from an egg bites the point of her sword. Behind her is a landscape with a rising sun; behind John Bull a heavy stone building. John Bull, his head raised in astonishment, is copied from Gillray's 'French Liberty, British Slavery', 1792 (BMSat 8145), he has been interrupted in carving his sirloin. Beneath the title:



'AUX HONNÊTES GENS DE TOUS LES PAYS
Cette Gravure représente la France sous la forme d'une Autruche, qui a eu le malheur dans sa premiere ponte de ne dormer que des monstres tels que Marrat, Carrier, Roberspierre, Jn Le Bon &c. &c. &c. que le retour de la Justice du neuf Thermidor a en quelque sorte fait disparoitre; tout nous fait espérer qu'elle continura [sic] a nous délivrer de cette espéce de fleau. L'Autruche plus heureuse dans sa seconde ponte n'offre que des amis de la paix, du bonheur universel et de la tranquilité des nations. Un Anglois dont l'embonpoint annonce une existence bien nourrie occupé à manger, est frappé de cet heureux changement et en témoigne sa surprise.
La Justice dit Monstres vous êtes anéantis pour jamais!
Le Francois - Europe! voila nos seuls vœux.
L'Autruche - Que je répare Men aujourd'hui mes torts
L'Anglois - Goddem! Go on.' August 1795


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Depicted people Associated with: Jean Baptiste Carrier
Date 1795
date QS:P571,+1795-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 284 millimetres
Width: 364 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1858,0417.1554
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) A print on the Thermidorian reaction and on the movement for peace during the summer of 1795; the war party were unsuccessfully opposed by those stigmatized as the 'faction des anciennes limites', whose views are here expressed. The contest raged in the Convention during August. Sorel, L'Europe et la rév. fr.', 1909, iv. 365-82. Cf. BMSat 8845. Hennin, No. 12094; Blum, No. 606; Challamel, ii. 49 (small copy).

(Supplementary information) See 'French Caricature and the French Revolution', Grunwald Center UCLA 1989, cat.153. For 'Les Formes Acerbes' see 1858,0417.1551. Bindman 1989 Literature: BMC 8675; Jouve 1983, pl. 7

This print offers to the world a new image of France scarred by the recent experience of the Terror. The idea for the design was that of a Dunkirk lawyer called Poirier, who was also responsible for the famous print 'Les Formes Acerbes' (Carnavalet, 1977, no. 283), attacking the Terror in northern France.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1858-0417-1554
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