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Suwarrow giving the French Directory a taste of the knout!!   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Suwarrow giving the French Directory a taste of the knout!!
Description
English: One of the Directory, stripped to the waist, is chained by the wrists to a post inscribed 'Tree of Liberty' and surmounted by a bonnet-rouge (cf. BMSat 9214, &c). Suvóroff holds him by the hair and ferociously raises a whip to strike. He wears a fur-bordered cap (with skull and cross-bones as in BMSat 9387), tunic, cloak, and boots, and says: "This is the new Dance a la Carmagnole!" The other four Directors (see BMSat 9387), full-face, but looking sideways in horror at the Russian, wait their turn; one (left) kneels in supplication. They wear their official dress (see BMSat 9199); the cloak and hat of the victim are on the ground. June 1799
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Louis Marie de la Révellière-Lépeaux
Date 1799
date QS:P571,+1799-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 270 millimetres
Width: 385 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.12540
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

See BMSat 9408, &c. Suvóroff's successes in Lombardy were followed by his march on Piedmont, where he was treated as a liberator; on 26 May he entered Turin.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-12540
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