File:Le-Boureau-Gillray.jpeg

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English: Le Bourreau (The Hangman)

Js. Gy. d. & ft.

SUMMARY: Cartoon shows George Tierney dressed as an executioner standing next to a guillotine with a crowd of liberty-capped citizens in the background.

MEDIUM: 1 print : etching, hand-colored.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: [London] : Pubd by H. Humphrey, 1798 April 18th.
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Source Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-6080 (color film copy transparency), uncompressed archival TIFF version (51 MB), color level (pick white and black points), rotated, cropped, and converted to JPEG (quality level 88) with the GIMP 2.4.5.
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James Gillray  (1756–1815)  wikidata:Q520806 s:en:Author:James Gillray q:en:James Gillray
 
James Gillray
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James Gilray; Gillay; Gillray
Description British caricaturist and engraver
Date of birth/death 13 August 1756 Edit this at Wikidata 1 June 1815 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London London Edit this at Wikidata
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