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The French Consular-triumverate, settl'ing the new constitution : with a peep at the constitutional-pigeon-holes of the Abbe Seiyes - in the back ground / Js. Gillray fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815

The French Consular-triumverate, settl'ing the new constitution : with a peep at the constitutional-pigeon-holes of the Abbe Seiyes - in the back ground / Js. Gillray fect.

[London] : Publish'd Jany 1st 1800, by Humphrey 27. St James's Street, [1800]
etching, hand colored
image: 342 x 246 mm; plate mark: 352 x 250 mm; sheet: 289 x 450 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.447
Notes
Beneath the design: The above are true Likenesses of Cambaceres, - Le-Brun - the Abbé Seiyes, and Buonaparte, drawn at Paris Novr 1799.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows Bonaparte seated at a small table writing with fierce decision; the Cambacérès and Lebrun sit facing him, biting their pens in pompous indecision, their papers are blank. Behind them Sieyès opens a curtain which stretches across the design, revealing papers in pigeon-holes inscribed: 'Constitution de Parade', 'Constitution du Sang', 'Constitution de Foutre', 'Constitution de Despotism', 'Constitution de Vol[eur?]'. Above them is a model of a guillotine. Above the curtain is a festoon of tricolour, inscribed 'Vive le Constitution Une et Invisible', centred by crossed blunderbusses. The tablecloth is looped up to show a group of tiny fire-lit demons forging fetters.

Associated names
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Ray, Gordon N. (Gordon Norton), 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
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