Liberation of a Bastille Prisoner, 1790

Befreiung eines Bastillehäftlings, Kupferstich, Deutschland, 1790, unbekannter Künstler; Bildquelle: Schulz, Friedrich: Geschichte der großen Revolution, Berlin: Vieweg 1790 [Titelvignette]; Privatbesitz.

The writer Friedrich Schulz held stayed in Paris from May to October 1789 and gathered material for his revolutionary history. The above-mentioned print, which the illustration of his book mirrors in the reverse, must have fallen into his hands while he resided there.


Befreiung eines Bastillehäftlings, engraving, Germany, 1790, unknown artist; source: Schulz, Friedrich: Geschichte der großen Revolution, Berlin: Vieweg 1790 [title vignette]; private collection.