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Lafayette Being Placed in Irons

ca. 1795

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In 1792 Lafayette left France and was recognized in the Austrian-held Netherlands (now Belgium) and arrested. Here, guards fit him with irons in prison. In May 1794 he would be transferred to a barracks-prison, formerly a Jesuit college in Olmütz, Moravia (today Olomouc in the Czech Republic). American influence made it possible for his wife and daughters to join in him 1795, and the prisoner would finally be released to the American consul in Hamburg in October 1797.

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Title: Lafayette Being Placed in Irons

Artist: François Jules Gabriel Depeuille (French, active Paris, 1783–98)

Artist: After Henry Robert Morland (British, London (?) 1716?–1797 London)

Publisher: Anker Smith (British, London 1759–1819 London)

Sitter: Marquis de Lafayette (French, 1757–1834)

Date: ca. 1795

Medium: Stipple engraving

Dimensions: Image: 16 3/16 in. × 13 in. (41.1 × 33 cm)
Plate: 18 7/8 × 14 15/16 in. (48 × 38 cm)
Sheet: 19 11/16 in. × 13 in. (50 × 33 cm)

Classification: Prints

Credit Line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883

Accession Number: 83.2.2002

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