Description
Condition: The colours have faded a little and the paper has some missing areas around the borders which have been infilled, the entire sheet has been cleaned and consolidated by lining onto archival backing paper. All work has been carried out by an accredited paper conservator.
The engravings ridicule the unrest wrought by French revolutionaries by contrasting French subversion with British stability. The “British Liberty Tree” (depicted in the preceding image) is assigned to the mock Latin genus of “Stabilissimus,” while the more sickly looking “Foreign Tree” in this image is put in the genus “Subitarius.” Notice in the background of the latter, a guillotine, symbol of all that is wrong with France.
