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.