1819 Caricature by English caricaturist George Cruikshank. Titled “The Radical’s Arms”, it depicts the infamous guillotine. “No God! No Religion! No King! No Constitution!” is written in the republican banner.
The Worship of Bacchus by George Cruikshank (1862)
Steve Bell on The Worship of Bacchus by George Cruikshank
(Source: 1800s-enthusiast)
The dead drummer
George Cruikshank (?), from The Ingoldsby legends, by Thomas Ingoldsby (Richard H. Barham), New York, 1848.
(Source: archive.org)
(via 47legs)
Website of the day!
http://www.parisrevolutionnaire.com/
Revolutionary walking guide to Paris
(goes hunting for passport…)
George Cruikshank. The Radical’s Arms. Satirical cartoon from England lampooning the excesses of the Revolution as symbolized through the guillotine: between 18,000 and 40,000 people were executed during the Reign of Terror. (Wikipedia)
