xml/lby.00101.xml Icons of Liberty: "Order Reigns in Warsaw"

Félicien Rops, "Order Reigns in Warsaw," (1860)

Félicien Rops, "Order Reigns in Warsaw" (1860). Lithograph, 14 1/4 X 11 3/4. Biliothèque Royale, Brusselby. Reproduced from Ralph E. Shikes, The Indignant Eye: The Artist as Social Critic in Prints and Drawings from the Fifteenth Century to Picasso, Beacon Press, 1969, 221. Rops' lithograph comments on the ruthless slaughter of the Poles by the Russians after one of many abortive revolts in the 19th century.