A man in old-fashioned dress, wearing jack-boots, bestrides a prostrate man, nude and muscular; he holds a rein attached to a bit in the victim's mouth, and a whip, and looks cynically at the spectator. In the foreground (left) a man wearing a long fur-trimmed robe and holding (?) a divining-rod, points over his shoulder at the man with the whip. He has large erect furry ears (or cap). Behind the latter is a massive gibbet from which dangle the corpses of Justice with her scales, and Liberty with staff and cap. On the horizontal beam is a building, a wall behind which is a windowless rotunda (? a mausoleum) inscribed 'IOUI [sic] LIBERAT' (see curatorial comment).
<p><br>Allegorical frontispiece to Henry Fuseli, 'Remarks on the writings and conduct of J.J.Rousseau' (London 1767); proof before letters
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<p>Print made by: Charles Grignion
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<dl><dd>After: Henry Fuseli</dd></dl></div>
1767<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1767-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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