Lettered below image, lower left: "Pubd March 20th, 1793. by J. Aitken | Castle Street Leicester Fields | LOUIS XVI Taking Leave of his Wife & Family"; lower center: "NB: The above is an exact Copy of an infamous French Print, which has lately appeared in Paris, among numberless others, intended to | bring the Conduct of their late Monarch in his last moments, into Contempt & Ridicule; It is now copied & publish'd, in order to hold up a nation of un- | -feeling Assassins to that detestation which every true Englishman must feel for Wretches, who can sport with the sufferings of the unfortunate"
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection