Title-page vignette

Fred Barnard

1870s

7 cm. x 4.5 cm.

The figure of a female Jacobin, either the Vengeance or Madame Defarge, who is holding up a blood-dripping dagger, sets the keynote as the wind of violent revolution blows through her hair and garments from left (the past) to right (the future).

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

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