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Caricature of Assembly of Notables, February 22, 1787

Description: The colored etching depicts a group of chickens, ducks, and other fowl listening to the monkey dressed as a maitre d'.
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Date: unknown
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Characters of the French Revolution

Description: The horizontal composition includes detailed paintings of various people during the time of the French Revolution with captions.
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Date: unknown
Creator: Lesueur Brothers
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Divorce: The Reconciliation.

Description: Two couples and a child are exhibiting emotion with a judge seated between them.
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Date: unknown
Creator: Lesueur Brothers
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Nautilus Passengers

Description: The black and white engraving depicts men looking at the great creatures under the sea.
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Date: unknown
Creator: Neuville, Alphonse de & Hildibrand, Henri Theophile
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The Royal Arms Jubilant

Description: Queen Victoria, a lion picking his teeth, a unicorn, coat of arms, champagne, flags, meat on a platter, seascape, boats in the distance are all pictured in this satirical cartoon from the weekly magazine, St. Stephen's Review.
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Date: 1887
Creator: Mecham, William
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Caricature of Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

Description: The illustration depicts a man breaking a chain over an anvil with a mallet. Underneath is the caption, "Le Vieux briseur de fers."
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Date: February 1879
Creator: Gill, André
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Freedom of Press

Description: The colored etching depicts a group of people in front of many presses.
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Date: 1797
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Purifying Pot of Jacobins

Description: The painting depicts a man straining the bourgeois from a pot of Jacobins.
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Date: 1793
Creator: Henriquez, Benoît Louis
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[Etcing and engraving "Puer parvulus minabiteos"]

Description: French religious etching and engraving titled "Puer Parvulus Minabiteos" (The Boy Threatened Them), which depictsa woman and three children in a field with a herd of wolfs, lions, and tigers among sheep and cattle. The main child, the baby Jesus, appears with a shepherds crook leading the flock.
Date: [1695..1800]
Creator: Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714 & Lacroix, S. F. (Silvestre François), 1765-1843
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Etching and engraving print "Porcie" from the portfolio "Galerie des Femmes fortes"]

Description: Etching and engraving of the historical female figure "Porcie" wearing roman style robes published in 1647 as part of the series "Galerie des Femmes fortes". The image is paired with descriptive French text that reads "Porcie at the edge of the burning coals, to go after her husband: and by the boldness and novelty of her death, equal to the reputation of Cato and the glory of Brutus."
Date: 1647
Creator: Rousselet, Gilles; Bosse, Abraham; Mariette, Pierre & Vignon, Claude
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Pastoral French landscape etching and engraving]

Description: Pastoral French etching and engraving of a landscape showing a small herd of cattle wadding through a stream that cuts through a hilly landscape with many trees. Two small figures appear conversing on the bank of the stream with a lone individual on a horse. The print is attributed to French designer and printmaker Adam Perelle and was published in Paris by Pierre Mariette.
Date: [1500..1700]
Creator: Perelle, Adam & Mariette, Pierre
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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