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The French revolution: burning the royal carriages at the Chateau d'Eu, Feby. 24, 1848 – Antique Print

The French revolution: burning the royal carriages at the Chateau d'Eu, Feby. 24, 1848, New York : Published by N. Currier, c1848. — antique lithograph
The French revolution: burning the royal carriages at the Chateau d'Eu, Feby. 24, 1848, New York : Published by N. Currier, c1848.. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare antique lithograph captures The French revolution: burning the royal carriages at the Chateau d'Eu, Feby. 24, 1848 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The Château d'Eu, a royal residence in Normandy and a favorite country home of King Louis-Philippe, is the setting here, and the event is the uprising of February 1848. On February 24, the same day the king abdicated in Paris and fled toward England, crowds at the château brought the royal carriages out and set them alight. Currier's New York firm issued the hand-colored lithograph within months, so it reflects how American audiences followed the upheaval in Europe as news arrived by ship. The scene shows how quickly the July Monarchy's symbols of royal privilege became targets of public anger.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by N. Currier, c1848.
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand-colored
GenreLithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2317
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,093 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-174481

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