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Image Title: L'aristocratic Ecrasee, 1790

Date: 1790

Summary: Print shows a bust portrait of Louis XVI atop a pedestal with engraved text "A Louis XVI Pere des Francais et Roi d'un peuple libre." A reclining female figure, aided by Father Time, is engraving text on plaque near the top of the pedestal, "Espoir de l'age d'or..." To the left of the statue is a shovel, wheat, a beehive, and a small tree; in the background is the Bastille.

Subjects: Father Time (Symbolic character)--1790
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799
Louis--XVI,--King of France,--1754-1793--Statues
Nobility--France--1790
Prisons--France--1790
Sculpture--France--1790

Original Media: Etching

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