ID: 700001257 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001257	Record Type: Movable Work

Les crimes des rois (etching (print); published by Chez Villeneuve graveur, rue Zacharie St Severi...; published 1790; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 2716-243; 716243; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.17,f.8))

Note: Plate 1 of Collection générale des caricatures sur la Révolution française de 1789. Followed by Fanatism and Discord, Tyranny attacks Nature that has fallen on the steps of a palace; Forms part of: Prints of the French Revolution, 1774-ca. 1840 (Special Collections, accn. no. P980009*). Publication: A Paris : Chez Villeneuve graveur, rue Zacharie St Severin maison du passage no. 21, [1790].

Titles:

Les crimes des rois (preferred,C,U,RP,French-P,U,U)

Allegory of Tyranny, with Fanaticism and Discord, attacking Nature on the steps of a palace (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

etching (print) [300041365] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

prints (visual works) [300041273]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

color prints (prints) [300041504]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: published 1790

Creator Display:

published by Chez Villeneuve graveur, rue Zacharie St Severin maison du passage no. 21 [preferred,GRISC]

publishers Villeneuve (French engraver, active from late 18th century) [500043075]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2716-243; 716243; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.17,f.8)

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Other: Publication: Paris [7008038] Île-de-France (region (administrative division)), France (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: 1 print :etching, tool work, col.

	prints (visual works) [300041273]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Dimensions: oval image 10.1 x 8.1 cm, plate mark 14.5 x 11.1 cm, on sheet 14.7 x 11.2 cm

General Subject:

allegory (preferred)

satire

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	Tyranny [901000292]
	.....((Miscellaneous allegorical or symbolic characters, Miscellaneous Allegory, Symbolism, Theme, Miscellaneous Topics)) (ICON)

	French Revolution [901000102]
	.....((French history, European history, Named Events)) (ICON)

	caricatures [300015634]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by form>, <visual works by form of image>) (AAT)

	Nature [901000293]
	.....((Miscellaneous allegorical or symbolic characters, Miscellaneous Allegory, Symbolism, Theme, Miscellaneous Topics)) (ICON)

	revolutionaries' [300237490]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by ideology| philosophy| or political activity>) (AAT)

Creation Number: Plate 1 of Collection g$00en$00erale des caricatures sur la R$00evolution française de 1789

Provenance: lfell; Purchase.

Inscriptions: Les crimes des rois. "La nature outragée et renversée sur les marches d'un Palais tombe sous le Glaive de la / Tyrannie. Envain la Nature veut quelques efforts pour se relever et échaper a sa rage, ... / A quels monstres grand Dieu ! librez vous l'univers."--inscribed in the lower margin.; "No 1"--inscribed in the upper right corner.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Les crimes des rois	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 716243
Allegory of Tyranny, with Fanaticism and Discord, attacking Nature on the steps of a palace	........ [VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) note

Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]

....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

Note:
English	..... [GRISC,VP]
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)