Vue de la montagne elevée au champ de la reunion

Print shows the Festival of the Supreme Being, inspired by Robespierre, planned by Jacques Louis David, to commemorate the second year of the Republic; a female figure, representing France, riding on a cart with objects of abundance around her, pulled by 6 bulls, is shown at the base of an artificial mountain, as a long procession of citizens makes their way to and up the mountain where, at top, a Liberty cap rises above the tree of liberty. To the left is a tall column with a statue of Hercules on top.

Caption continues: pour le fête qui y a êté célebrée en l'honneur de l'Etre Suprême le Decadi 20 Priairial de l'an 2me de la Republique Française.
de Vinck, 6298
(DLC/PP-1963:R1).
Forms part of: John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress).
Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: "Representing Revolution : French & British Images, 1789-1804" at the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, Sept. 15-Nov. 1, 1989.