British Museum catalogue: " A complicated and symmetrical design. Hoche, seated on a rainbow which spans a landscape undergoing military devastation, plays a guillotine as if it were a lyre. He is a handsome young man wearing only a cloak and sash in which is a pair of pistols. He has just kicked off his two heavy spurred jack-boots which fall towards the ground and is unconscious of a falling noose which is about to encircle his neck. His head is surrounded by a circular glory of rays which is framed by the winged and decollated heads of Jacobin cherubs shouting hymns of praise; three open books are the 'Marsellois Hymn' flanked by 'Ca Ira.' These cherubs, who completely encircle Hoche, wear bonnets-rouges; blood gushes from their necks...."
Notes:
Pubd. 11th [? Jan.] 1798 by H. Humphrey, 27, St James's Street, London
Label(s): Equality
Label(s): Assignats
Label(s): Roland the Martyr. Condorcet. Progrès de l'esprit. Poison. Recit de mes Perils. Marat the Martyr. Pétion starv'd [to] Death. Barbaroux starved to Death.
Text: no other God but me. upon the thirtieth & fortieth generation, & shalt have no Mercy at all. Denounce thy Father & thy Mother that thy days may [obscured] Thou shalt Murder. Thou shalt commit Adultery. Thou shalt bear false witness. Thou shalt covet thy Neighbours House & every thing that is his. Thou [obscured]
"The apotheosis of Hoche"
(1798).
Napoleonic Satires from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:232475/
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