The knight of the woeful countenance going to extirpate the National Assembly – Antique Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of The knight of the woeful countenance going to extirpate the National Assembly. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The knight of the woeful countenance going to extirpate the National Assembly
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Its title casts Edmund Burke as the "Knight of the Woeful Countenance," the nickname Cervantes gives Don Quixote, and shows him riding out to destroy the National Assembly of revolutionary France. The etching was published in London by William Holland on November 15, 1790, within weeks of the appearance of Burke's *Reflections on the Revolution in France*, and the record notes that it includes an excerpt from that work. The print turns Burke's denunciation of the French upheaval into a comic image of a lone crusader charging at a cause that many in Britain saw as a reform of an absolute monarchy. Its hand coloring was typical of the satirical prints sold in London's print shops in that period.
| Created / published | London : Pubd. by Wm. Holland N. 50 Oxford Street, 1790 Nov. 15. |
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| Medium | 1 print : etching, hand-colored. |
| Genre | admittance one shilling. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I |
| Notes | Title from item. Includes excerpt: Burke on the Revolution in France |
| Subjects | Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797. France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,053 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172916 |
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