The Contrast 1792-Which Is Best by Thomas Rowlandson

Hand-coloured 1792 print contrasting British Liberty, a calm allegorical woman with scales, against French Liberty, a wild fi

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A hand-coloured print titled The Contrast 1792 by Thomas Rowlandson, dated 1792, sets two circular medallions side by side. The left medallion shows a robed woman with a helmet, scales of justice, a Magna Carta scroll, a lion and a ship under sail, labelled British Liberty, while the right shows a wild-haired woman with a trident and a severed head beside a hanging figure, labelled French Liberty. Lists of virtues and vices beneath each medallion contrast the two systems.

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1792

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