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The head of a man cut off by a guillotine. Etching by James Gillray after himself.
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The head of a man cut off by a guillotine. Etching by James Gillray after himself.

1793

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Lettering: The blood of the murdered crying for vengeance. This exact representation of that instrument of French refinement in assassination, the Guillotine is submitted to the Gentlemen of the Phalanx & other well-wishers to the King and Constitution of Great Britain, by their devoted Servants at Command The Assassins of the King of France. Js. Gy. desn. et fect. pro bono publico.

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