To His Royal Highness Frederick Duke of York, Commander in Chief of the British forces - and to the Loyal Volunteer Corps of Great Britain, This Plate being an emblematical representation of the Gallic Tree of Liberty, and displaying its fatal effects to those Nations that have unfortunately been compelled to submit to its lawless Introduction. Is humbly submitted and Inscribed by their most Humbl
Hand-colored aquatint by Reeve after Dayes, 'Invented by C.J. Williams, Loyal Southwark Volunteers', published June 4th, 1804; symbolic tree in center, bare and blasted by lightning, with scenes of military atrocities and other violence around its trunk (hangings, whipping, execution by firing squad, beheading, guillotine, chasing women etc.) against conscripts, nobles, Syrians or Egyptians. Hand-colored aquatint by Reeve after Dayes, 'Invented by C.J. Williams, Loyal Southwark Volunteers', published June 4th, 1804; symbolic tree in center, bare and blasted by lightning, with scenes of military atrocities and other violence around its trunk (hangings, whipping, execution by firing squad, beheading, guillotine, chasing women etc.) against conscripts, nobles, Syrians or Egyptians. Tree has various words engraved upon it including: Injustice, Depopulation, Supineness, Atheism, Desolation, Treason, Licentiousness, Sedition, Ambition, Duplicity, Intrigue, Hypocrisy, Regicide, Anarchy, Usurpation, Religious Persecution, Depravity, etc. Medallion portrait of Napoleon hanging on tree Large upright folio, matted; margins; margins worn, soiled and torn. London, Spencer, 1955.
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