About this image...

Image Title: La Romaine Aristocratique, 1789

Date: 1789

Summary: Print shows a monstrous figure holding a scale weighing a member of the Third Estate; in the background a plump clergyman and a nobleman walk away with a large pig between them.

Subjects: France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799
France.--Etats generaux
Monsters--1780-1790
Scales--France--1780-1790
Social classes--France--1780-1790
Swine--France--1780-1790

Original Media: Etching

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