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Descriptive Information

Title
The Tragedy of Louis Capet: : Being a true and authentic narrative of the horrid and barbarous execution of the late unfortunate monarch, Louis XVIth of France, who was beheaded, on the twenty-first of January, 1793 ...
Call Number
A Middle 37/Drawer 06/GC053/Half Folio/Hamilton 1367 GA 2026.00009
Identifier
ark:/88435/dchd76sd988
Publisher
[Boston] : Sold next the venerable stump of Liberty-Tree [by Ezekiel Russell, 1793].
Language
English
Date Created
1793
Format
Book
Extent
Broadside, 1 sheet : ill. (relief cuts) ; 52 x 39 cm.
References
ESTC W10573
Evans 26272
Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2701
Hamilton, S. American book illustrators (1968 ed.), no. 1367
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
With relief cuts flanking title.
Includes also three poems, entitled Occasioned by the death of Louis XVIth, On the decolation of Louis 16, and The Queen's lamentation for the death of her beloved Louis.

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Subject
Louis XVI King of France 1754-1793
France—History—Revolution, 1789-1799

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/86910c39-ae2f-4ba0-b815-16071dd00811/manifest