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FRENCH REVOLUTION. –. Group of 35 leaves with portraits of important figures of the French Revolution.

Etchings on paper. each 42,5 x 28 cm (plate) on c. 48 x 33 cm (leaf). Large folio. Loose leaves. – (Paris), c. 1800.

Group of 35 leaves, each with a portrait, a scene from the revolution and a explanatory text on the role of the person in the revolution. The plates are taken from the „Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la Révolution française“. This work of education and propaganda was published in two volumes in 1798 for the first time, but without these plates. They were included in a third volume of the second edition, published in 1802, and the subsequent editions from 1804 and 1817. This collection contains the following persons: – Maximilien Robespierre Député d’Artois; C. F: Lamoignon Malesherbes; Honoré Gabriel Riquetti Mirabeau; Carrier Député du Département du Cantal; Marie-Jeanne-Phélippon; Antoine Laurent Lavoisier; Néker Ministre d’état; Louis Philippe Joseph Duc d’Orléans; Michel le Pelletier de St. Farbeau; Henriot Commandant Général; Camille Desmoulins; Fouquier-Trainville; Gensonné, Député de la Convention Nationale; Jean Marie Roland de la Platière; Lalli, Comte de Tolendal; Gilbert Mottier Lafayette; Calonne; Pichegru, Général en Chef; Victor Moreau; Danton Député de Paris; Adam Philippe Comte de Custine; Jean Paul Marat; Caritat de Condorcet; Charles Maurice Talleyrand de Périgord; Chalier Procurier de la Commune à Lyon; Jean-Sifrein Maury; J. S. Bailly; Charles Duval d’Éprémenil; Aimée-Cécile-Renaud; Marie Anne Charlotte; Guadet; Dumouriez; Brissot; Jérome Pétion; Joseph Emmanuel Sieyes. – Some leaves with small tears on margins. Foxing in parts. – Best.-Nr. 26130