Liberation of a Bastille Prisoner, 1790
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Befreiung eines Bastillehäftlings, engraving, Germany, 1790, unknown artist; source: Schulz, Friedrich: Geschichte der großen Revolution, Berlin: Vieweg 1790 [title vignette]; private collection.
![Befreiung eines Bastillehäftlings, Kupferstich, Deutschland, 1790, unbekannter Künstler; Bildquelle: Schulz, Friedrich: Geschichte der großen Revolution, Berlin: Vieweg 1790 [Titelvignette]; Privatbesitz.](https://ego-ploneui.uni-trier.de/illustrationen/frz.-revolution-bilderordner/befreiung-eines-bastillehaeftlings-1790-img/@@images/a48c30fe-e867-4b7b-a3f5-4418cbcd3e14.jpeg "Befreiung eines Bastillehäftlings 1790 IMG")
The writer Friedrich Schulz held stayed in Paris from May to October 1789 and gathered material for his revolutionary history. The above-mentioned print, which the illustration of his book mirrors in the reverse, must have fallen into his hands while he resided there.
Befreiung eines Bastillehäftlings, engraving, Germany, 1790, unknown artist; source: Schulz, Friedrich: Geschichte der großen Revolution, Berlin: Vieweg 1790 [title vignette]; private collection.