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a wild-haired sans culotte sits on a throne teetering on a pile of broken pillars marked Humanity, Social Happiness, Religion and other subjects, surrounded by grotesque and violent allegories of Liberty, Equality, Peace and Plenty, original hand-coloured etching, 270 x 375mm., slight marginal browning, [BM Satires 8150] ; England Invaded, or Frenchmen Naturalized, French troops being mown down by English soldiers and citizens as they attempt to come ashore, their landing craft sinking in the background, original hand-coloured aquatint, 310 x 385mm., slight creasing and surface dirt, [BM Satires 9187], Ackermann, 1798; with 2 other Rowlandson satires from either end of the Napoleonic era, Any Thing Will Do For An Officer, depicting a diminutive figure in ill-fitting uniform, the verse below explaining men of such stature would disfigure the ranks, so were only fit to be officers, uncoloured, [not in BM Satires], S.W. Fores, 1796, and Peace and Plenty, soldiers flirt with buxom wenches at a coastal fort, original hand-colouring, [BM Satires 12259], Thomas Tegg, 1814 (4)