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The Governor of the Bastille, after Lowering the First Drawbridge, Allows a Large Number of Citizens to Enter the First Courtyard, and Then Has Them Shot

Engraving showing the governor of the Bastille allowing a crowd of Parisian citizens into the first courtyard on 14 July 1789, then ordering them to be fired upon.

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Details

Instance of: engraving
Inception: 1790
Publication date: 1789
Location: Bastille
Creator: Jean-François Janinet
Genre: propaganda
Main subject: Storming of the Bastille
Depicts: Storming of the Bastille, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Bastille
Material: paper, laid paper
collection: Harvard Art Museums database
copyright status: public domain
date depicted: 14 July 1789
fabrication method: etching, aquatint, lift-ground etching
height: 13 cm
illustrator: Jean-François Janinet
inventory number: 265464
published in: Gravures Historiques des principaux événements depuis l'ouverture des Etats
title: The Governor of the Bastille, after Lowering the First Drawbridge, Allows a Large Number of Citizens to Enter the First Courtyard, and Then Has Them Shot (14 July 1789), Le gouverneur de la Bastille après avoir fait baisser le 1er pont-levis et laissé entrer un grand nombre de citoyens dans la 1ere cour, les fait fusiller
width: 9 cm

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