xml/lby.00134.xml Icons of Liberty: France Being Devoured by Crows of all Kinds

Jean-Ignace Grandville and Eugène Forest, France Being Devoured by Crows of all Kinds (1831)

Jean-Ignace Grandville and Eugène Forest, France Being Devoured by Crows of all Kinds (1831). Lithograph. Reproduced from Robert Philippe, Political Graphics: Art as a Weapon, Phaidon, 1980, 147. The crows represent members of the French government who are destroying French republicanism.

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