Political cartoons concerning France, 1789-1830
Collection Number: 8552

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Political cartoons concerning France, 1789-1830
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
8552
Abstract:
French Revolution period caricatures mainly concerning the three estates of France, the nationalization of church property, privileges of the clergy and nobility, despotism, the constitution of 1791, and the political process.
Creator:
no primary creator
Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847.
Isabey, Jean-Baptiste, 1767-1855.
Philipon, Charles, 1800-1862.
Prieur, J.-L. (Jean-Louis), 1759-1795
Quanitities:
1.6 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in French and German
NOTES

Title devised by cataloger.
Related materials are held at Cornell in the Lafayette Collection; the Graphics, Pamphlets, Newspapers, and Books components of the French Revolution Collection; and the general Rare Books collection. All are located in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.
Former call numbers: Archives DC140.9 .F87 Box 1-5+++ (under title French Revolution political caricatures); Archives DC140.9 .F87 Box 7-12+++ (under title Nineteenth-century political caricatures concerning France). Items housed in Archives DC140.9 .F87 Box 7-12+++ included an album of anti-Napoleon caricatures with previous call number Rare DC203.4C27++.


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Political Cartoons Concerning France, 1789-1914, #8552. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Scope and content

French Revolution period caricatures mainly concerning the three estates of France, the nationalization of church property, privileges of the clergy and nobility, despotism, the constitution of 1791, and the political process. Included are Adieu Bastille, Le Dentiste National, and La Nation Française Assistée de M. de la Fayette. Includes one German caricature by P. Scherz, engraved by Brunee. Napoleonic period caricatures consist mainly of hand-colored engravings and etchings, many of them French or German caricatures of Napoleon which satirize his military setbacks or note the carnage caused by his military campaigns. These include Triumph des Jahres 1813; Ach! Papa, Welche schöne Seifenblasen hast du gemacht; Georges édenté; Der Rheinische Courier; and others.All French Revolution period prints are anonymous except for one item by Benjamin, lithographed by Becquet, and one engraving drawn by Geissler. Artists for later prints include J.J. Grandville, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, and Charles Philipon. Most of the prints were issued by anonymous publishers. Named publishers: Paris: Basset, Martinet, Genty, Aubert, and Crépy.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Charles, King of France, X, 1757-1836 -- : Caricatures and cartoons.
George, King of Great Britain, III, 1738-1820 -- : Caricatures and cartoons.
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834 -- : Caricatures and cartoons.
Louis, King of France, XVI, 1754-1793 -- : Caricatures and cartoons.
Louis, King of France, XVIII, 1755-1824 -- : Caricatures and cartoons.
Louis Philippe, King of the French, 1773-1850 -- : Caricatures and cartoons.
Metternich, Clemens Wenzel Lothar, Fürst von, 1773-1859 -- : Caricatures and cartoons.
Maury, Jean Siffrein, 1746-1817 -- : Caricatures and cartoons.
Mirabeau, vicomte de, 1754-1795 -- : Caricatures and cartoons.
Montesquiou-Fezensac, François-Xavier-Marc-Antoine, duc de, 1757-1832 -- : Caricatures and cartoons.
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838 -- : Caricatures and cartoons.
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 -- : Caricatures and cartoons.
Bastille
Congress of Vienna (Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1814-1815).)
Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793
Places:
France -- Constitution.
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Foreign public opinion.
France -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
France -- Politics and government -- 1789-1799.
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Art and the revolution.
France -- History -- July Revolution, 1830 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Subjects:
Thermidor (French Revolution)
Leipzig, Battle of, Leipzig, Germany, 1813.
Censorship -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Despotism -- France.
Privileges and immunities -- France.
Nobility -- France.
Estates (Social orders) -- France.
Clergy -- France.
Press and politics -- France.
Political culture -- France.
Form and Genre Terms:
Engravings -- Colored -- Germany -- 19th century.
Engravings -- Colored -- France -- 19th century.
Engravings -- Colored -- France -- 18th century.
Caricatures -- Germany -- 19th century.
Caricatures -- France -- 19th century.
Caricatures -- France -- 18th century.
Etchings -- Colored -- France -- 1789-1799.
Engravings -- Colored -- France -- 1789-1799.
Fans (costume accessories)

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Attacks against the Old Regime and Legal Privileges (before July 1789)
1789
Box 1 1
"A Faut esperer queu se jeu…"
1789
26.2 x 21.7 cm
Print shows the nobility and the clergy riding on the back of a man representing the third estate or working class; the man is bent under their weight and supports, while around his feet birds and rabbits (which he cannot hunt) feast on the produce of his labor.
Scope and Contents
Described as follows in the Catalogue of the Library of A.D. White (Cornell, 1894): "Colored engraving showing a bishop and a nobleman astride of an old peasant, who moves slowly, supported by his mattock, while pigeons and hares devour his grain and vegetables about his feet... For a sequel of this caricature, see J'savois ben, etc." (p. 293)
France.
Box 5 2
"La France Figurée sous un Globe est soutenu du Peuple. La Noblesse et le Clergé"
1789
27.2 x 20 cm
France.
Storming of the Bastille (14 July 1789)
1789
France.
Box 1 3
"Réveil du Tiers-Etat: "Ma feinte, il doit tems que je me réveillisse [sic]…"
1789
20.6 x 25.3 cm
France.
Box 1 4
"Adieu Bastille"
1789
20.5 x 29.8 cm
Scope and Contents
Available on Shared Shelf Commons: RMC2007_0369
France.
Box 6
Fan depicting the storming of the Bastille
1789
1 items.
Box 7
Pierced brisé fan with painted images of the Bastille and woman with baby
1789
Scope and Contents
Sandalwood fan (approx. 487mm) with ornamental and figurative cut-outs, highlighted in gouache, sticks with floral and arabesque cut-outs, and two large cut-outs of the Bastille, enclosed in foliage and flowers, with at center a medallion-shaped mounted print, heavily over-painted, of a woman and baby; imagery includes nothing related to the events of July 14, 1789, could conceivably have been produced before that.
Abolition of Aristocracy and Nationalization of Church Property (August-November 1789)
1789-1790
France.
Box 1 5
"J'savois ben qu'j'aurions not' tour"
1789
28 x 20.3 cm
France.
Box 1 6
"Ha je seront bien content quand j'aurons tous ces papiers la"
1789
29 x 19.5 cm
France.
Box 1 7
"Ils les avaients [sic] trop longs"
1789
28 x 23 cm
France.
Box 1 8
"Les Trois ordres… sous le niveau"
1789
10.5 x 7. 5 cm
France.
Box 1 9
"L'Abb d'autre fois. L'Abb d'aujourd'hui"
1790
11. 5 x 8 cm
France.
Box 1 10
"Grand mal de cœur de Monseigneur : Courage Mrg vous allé́ vous purgée [sic] de chose bien utile pour votre salut"
1790
19 x 24.5 cm
France.
Box 1 11
"Le Dentiste National"
1789
18 x 26 cm
France.
Box 1 12
"Trois têtes sous le même bonnet"
1789
20 x 30.3 cm
France.
Box 1 13
"Ma finte, Monsieur, je crois que vot' habit d'officier m'ira ben !"
1789
27.5 x 20 cm
France.
Box 1 14
"Un seul fait les trois"
1789
22.5 x 28.5 cm
France.
Box 1 71
"Les sacrifices forces"
1789-08-19
1 items.
Celebration of National Unity, Fete de la Federation (14 July 1790), Constitutional Monarchy
1789-1791
France.
Box 2 15
"Bon nous voilà d'accord"
1789
14. 5 x 14 cm
Scope and Contents
Available on Shared Shelf Common: RMC2009_0125
France.
Box 2 16
"Par moi vous tes tous frres"
1789
24 x 20 cm
France.
Box 2 17
"Tôt tôt tôt battez chaud tôt tôt tôt bon courrage il faut avoir cœur à l'ouvrage"
1789
18.5 x 18 cm
Scope and Contents
Available on Shared Shelf Common; RMC2007_0367
France.
Box 2 18
No Title, showing the three estates as part of the same carriage
1789
26 x 21.5 cm
France.
Box 2 19
"Magicienne Consultée sur la Révolution de 1789 : orgueil dompté, avarice punie, mérite reconnû [sic], union des quatre parties du monde"
1789
24 x 32 cm
France.
Box 2 20
"La Nation française assistée de Mr de la Fayette terrasse le despotisme et les abus du règne féodal…"
1789
27 x 18.5 cm
France.
Box 2 21
"Ha, je seront bien content quand j'aurons tous ces papiers-là : Le trésor tiré des ténèbres"
1790-1791
29 x 19.5 cm
France.
Satire against Royalists, Emigrés, and the Conservative Church
1789-1792
France.
Box 2 22
"Le Pied de Nez ou l'Aristocratie écrasée"
1789
23 x 27 cm
France.
Box 2 71
Un Monstre a trois têtes désignant les trois Etats de l'aristocratie s'occupe à dévorer le reste du cadavre du peuple qu'il à englouti impitoyablement dans ses entrailles carnivores : il est précédé du fanatisme aux queus [sic] de dragon et qui est vêtu d'un froc monacal, il porte à califourchon sur son dos l'hypocrisie pressante, un serpent qui distille son poison aristocratique
1789
20. 5 x 35 cm
Box 2 23
[High Clergy, Parliaments, and Nobility, in the Persons of Maury, d'Eprémesnil and Mirabeau-Tonneau] « On ne peut trop les punir, ils nous ont fait assez souffrir : Labor omnia vincit improbus »
1789
25 x 38 cm
France.
Box 2 24
"Monsieur Veto : quel est donc ce Mr Veto, qui seul fait plus de bruit que n'en fit Figaro sans doute il n'est pas né dans le canton de Berne. Veut du peuple faire un zéro, etc"
1790
14 x 20.5 cm
France.
Box 2 25
"Curé de St ....... accompagné de deux diables descend dans l'empire des démons pour demander a Belzebuth leurs princes des secours pour tacher s'il est possible d'empêcher l'exécution de la Constitution civile ecclésiastique. Ou va-t'en au diable"
1791
25 x 20 cm
France.
Box 2 26
"Le Tiers-Etat mariant les religieux avec les religieuses: en faisant une si bonne action, nous garantissons des cornes"
1790
17.5 x 27.5 cm
France.
Box 2 27
"Saint Pierre Reniant le Pape Pie VI"
1791
23.5 x 17 cm
France.
Box 2 28
"M. le marquis de Vieille Roche protestant contre les Decrets de l'Assemblée Nationale ; M. le vieux Marechal Aristocrate effraié de la bourasque parisienne ; L'Officier Aristocrate mettant les pouces devant les patriotes français ; M. le Chevalier, ancien Courtisan sans titres ni pension"
1791-1792
France.
Box 2 29
"Retour de Deux Emigrans"
1791-1792
23 x 30.5 cm
France.
Outside Perception of the French Revolution
1792
Box 2 72
"D Frankreichs Lillie!"
1792
22.5x37 cm
Scope and Contents
Contains optical illusion images of 14 heads of state and political revolutionaries including Robespierre, Hebert, and Orleans
Germany.
Box 2 74
"Grand convoi funebre de leurs majestés les Jacobins en leur vivant, nos seigneurs et maitres décédé en leurs palais de la rue St. Honoré"
1792
source: Kaaterskill Books
Creator: Massard, J. B. L. ((Jean Baptiste Louis)), 1772-1810
1 items.
19 x 38 cm
Scope and Contents
Shows Jacobins masquerading as animals in a carnival procession, led by Brissot de Warville and Condorcet, who are riding asses (facing backwards). Jean-Paul Marat is at the rear.
Kaaterskill Books
Club des Jacobins
Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de, 1743-1794
Brissot de Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre), 1754-1793
Revolutionary War in Europe (1791-1798)
1791-1798
France.
Box 2 30
"Subsistances portées par le duc Dyork à Toulon : on voit ce qu'il y avait dans le sac ; le grain seul reste sur le terrein de la liberté́, qu'il abandonne, ayant le nez cassé et le sceptre ses espérances étant rompu"
1794
36 x 26 cm
France.
Box 2 31
"Départ de l'Anglais du continent : chargé de son moulin sans grain, portant sa gentille meunière, ce triste Anglais s'en va bon train, qu'and Jacquot lui souffle au derrière"
undated
28.5 x 19.5 cm
France.
Box 5 32
"Die grosse und merkwurdige Regierungsrevolution der Bataver Republick… am 12 Juni 1798"
1798
20 x 26 cm
Scope and Contents
As a general in the French revolutionary army of General Charles Pichegru and commander of the Batavian Legion. Daendels helped Dutch politician Pieter Vreede to power in a coup d'tat on 25 January 1798. The reign of Vreede did not bring the expected results, however, and Daendels supported another coup d'tat against Vreede on 14 June 1798]
Germany.
Box 2 73
An Emblematical View of the Constitutions of England and France
1791
10.5x13.5
England.
Comité de Salut Public and "Reign of Terror"
1793-1794
France.
Box 2 33
"Vive la LibertVive la Libert"
1793
17. 2 x 14.4 cm
Scope and Contents
Described as follows in the Catalogue of the Historical Library of A.D. White (1894): "Colored engraving representing a prisoner in a dimly lighted cell, standing on a bunch of straw, chained by waist and neck to the wall, and uttering the above exclamation" (p. 296)
Box 2 34
"Guillotine"
1794
12 x 15 cm
England (?)
Fall of Robespierre, Thermidorian Reaction
1795-1799
France.
Box 3 35
"Signalement Des Chouans et Autres Contrevolutionaires [sic]: Officiers gnraux de l'arme thermidorienne sortant du Caff de Chartres allant en expditions arms de btons"
1795-1799
28.5 x 19.55 cm
France.
Box 3 36
"Ėmigrand [sic] revenant a Paris"
1795-1799
24.5 x 1.5 cm
France.
Box 3 37
"Le Petit Coblentz"
1795-1799
Creator: Isabey, Jean-Baptiste
19 x 15 cm
Scope and Contents
Available on Shared Shelf Commons: RMC2007_0368
France.
Reign of Napoleon I. Official Propaganda Celebrating His Victories as well as the New Dynasty
1806-1813
France.
Official Propaganda Celebrating His Victories as well as the New Dynasty
Box 3 38
Entrevue de Napolon le Grand, 1.er Empereur des Franais et Roi d'Italie, avec Franois II. Empereur d'Allemagne [after Austerlitz, 1805]
1806
22.2 x 34.1 cm
France.
Box 3 39
Combat de Saalfeld et Mort du Prince Louis de Prusse
1806
22.2 x 34.1 cm
France.
Box 3 40
"Georges [King George III. of England], dent. Quand il n'aura pas plus de dents il ne mordra plus!"
1806
20.4 x 27 cm
France.
Box 3 41
"Trait de prudence du Lord Morpeth: Envoy d'Angleterre auprs du Cabinet Prussien il ne se trouvait qu'a 6 lieues du champ de bataille pendant la journe d'Jena il entend le canon ... court ... offre 60 guines pour un cheval l'obtient et se sauve"
1806
16.5 x 15.1 cm
France.
Box 3 42
"Famille Impériale et Royale de Napoléon le Grand premier du nom, Empereur des Français, Roi d'Italie, et Protecteur de la Confédération du Rhin"
1810
23 x 36 cm
France.
Box 3 43
"Promenade du Petit Roi de Rome au bord de l'eau"
1813
30 x 24 cm
France.
Hostile Caricatures and French-Bashing (1813-1815)
1812-1815
France.
Box 3 44
"Triumph des Jahres 1813"
1813
Creator: Henschel, Gebrder
12 x 9.3 cm
Germany.
Box 3 45
"Die neue Europaeische Barbierstube"
1813
Creator: Voltz, Johann Michael
16 x 14 cm
Germany.
Box 3 46
"A la Cosaka"
1812-1813
16 x 12 cm
Scope and Contents
Available on Shared Shelf Commons: RMC2008_1144
Germany (?)
Box 3 47
"Der neue Universalmonarch"
1814
Creator: Voltz, Johann Michael
16 x 14 cm
Scope and Contents
Available on Shared Shelf Commons: RMC2008_1148
Germany.
Box 3 48
"Der grosse Totengraber"
1814
Germany (?)
Box 3 49
"Ach! Papa, welche schone Seifenblasen hast du gemacht!"
1814
Creator: Voltz, Johann Michael
19.8 x 16.6 cm
Scope and Contents
Available on Shared Shelf Commons: RM2008-1147
Germany.
Box 3 50
"Saute pour le roi"
1814
France.
Box 3 51
"Je Fume en Pleurant mes Peches"
1815
34 x 24.5 cm
France (?)
The First Bourbon Restoration (April 1814-March 1815) and the Cent-Jours (March-July 1815)
1814-1815
France.
Box 4 52
"La Colre du ciel est enfin apaise, nos Rois nous sont rendus"
1814
France.
Box 4 53
"Une visite de l'Ile d'Elbe, ou l'embarras de la toilette" [Louis XVIII and his brother, future Charles X]
1815
19 x 14.5 cm
France.
Box 4 54
"M. de la Rodomontade Apprenant le Debarquement de l'Empereur"
1815
24 x 22 cm
France.
Box 4 55
"Depart de Paris de Mr. de la Jobardire: Il est revenu! Filons!"
1815
24 x 22 cm
France.
Box 4 56
"Le Zélé Défenseur"
1815
24 x 22 cm
France.
Box 4 57
"La Girouette"
1815
24 x 22 cm
France.
Box 4 58
"C'est aujourd'hui la St. Lambert qui quitte sa place la perd"
1815
39 x 26.3 cm
France.
Box 4 59
"Retour de l'Ile d'Elbe, Il Ramène la Liberté!" 
1815
27 x 35 cm
France.
Second Restoration (1815-1830)
1815-1830
France.
Box 4 60
"La Balance Politique" [Congress of Vienna, 1815]
1815
31 x 43 cm
Scope and Contents
Plate from "Le Nain Jaune"
France.
Box 4 61
"Serment des Nouveaux Horace : Nous le Soutiendrons!" [Louis XVIII]
1815
24.8 x 21.2 cm
France.
Box 4 62
"Ah quelle crise ! Soutenez-moi car je chancelle" [Louis XVIII, Blacas, and Montesquiou]
1820
23.3 x 18.3 cm
France.
Box 5 63
"A ton tour mon vieux!" [Charles X and Hussein Dey, Ottoman ruler of Algiers, 1830]
1830
France.
Box 4 64
"Nouveau Journal des Modes : Coiffure a la Rambouillet inventée et exécutée par la population parisienne [pour Charles X]"
1830
22.3 x 20.2 cm
France.
Box 5 65
"Armes du Grand Poulot" [Imaginary Coat of Arms of King Louis-Philippe I.]
1830
Creator: Philipon, Charles
34 x 25 cm
Scope and Contents
Plate from "La caricature", nr. 63. Mentioned in the diary of Count Apponyi, the Austrian ambassador in Paris, 19 January 1832: "On a saisi hier une caricature : Les armes du grand Poulot; c'est un cusson bandes, une blanche entre deux vertes, deux btons tricolores avec un paon, queue dploye ; pour support un cheval de carton, des capucins de cartes, arms de fusils, des canards de carte, enfin des joujoux d'enfants ; pour couronne, un bonnet de papier avec un bouquet de lierre et pour devise : Bienheureux les pauvres d'esprit parce que le royaume est eux."
France.
Box 5 66
"Voici le pistolet qui a si longtemps amus le public, Voici la poire poudre, la poupe du tir et les drles de balles dont on s'est servi [after an attempt to assassinate King Louis-Philippe on November 19, 1832]
1832
Creator: Desperet , Auguste
24 x 20.7 cm
Scope and Contents
Plate from "La Caricature", nr. 130
France.
Box 5 67
"Les Favoris de la Poire" [Louis-Philippe as a pear with two of his ministers, Antoine d'Argout and Felix Barthe]
1833
Creator: Desperet , Auguste
15 x 18.5 cm
Scope and Contents
Plate from "La Caricature"
France.
Box 4 68
"Cabinet d'Histoire naturelle"
1833
Creator: Grandville, J.J.
35.6 52.1 cm
Scope and Contents
Plate from "La Caricature"
France.
Box 4 69
"N'oubliez pas le postillon, bourgeois : c'est juste, voici une poignée de main" [King Louis-Philippe as a penny-pinching bourgeois]
1835
Creator: Roubaud, Benjamin
25 x 23.2 cm
Scope and Contents
Plate from "La Caricature"
France.
Box 4 70
"Fete Nationale du 22 Septembre 1892: Le Char de la Concorde et de la Paix; le Char du Triomphe de la Republique"
1892-9-24
Scope and Contents
Illustrated Supplement to "Le petit Journal" Inscription: "G.L. Burr, Esq., Ithaca, New York, en Amérique"
France.
Box 1
"Etrennes choisies a la sagesse"
Undated
Scope and Contents
Artist unidentified.
Box 1
"Die neue Constitution bringt Schaden [an der] Kirch und Nation / La nouvelle Constitution: nuit a l'eglise et a la nation"
Undated
Scope and Contents
Artist unidentified.
Box 1
"Le jeune patriote"
Undated
Scope and Contents
Artist unidentified.
Box 1
"Prise des armes aux Invalides dans la matinee du 14 Juillet 1789"
1789
Scope and Contents
Engraving by Jean-Louis Prieur
Box 1
"Dies ist mein lieber John am den ich wohligfallen habe"
Box 1
"Avance"
Box 1
"An emblematical view of the constitutions of England and France exhibiting at the same time..."
Box 1
Der Rheinische Courier three prints
Box 1
German caricature by P. Scherz, drawn by Brunee.
Scope and Contents
Purchased in Vienna in 1889 by Andrew Dickson White.