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Aquatint portrait, 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. Near fine. Thomas Mauduit du Plessis (1752-91), veteran officer of the American Revolution, was sent to Haiti in 1787 and put in command of a regiment in Port-au-Prince. He vehemently opposed the French Revolution and emancipation. Joining forces with the Governor, he raised a volunteer regiment of Royalists, dissolved the Assembly, and suppressed proclamations sent from Revolutionary Paris. His actions resulted in an uprising, and he was assassinated by his own men. This print shows him in his military dress from the waist up, wearing his Society of the Cincinnati Eagle and his Ordre de St. Louis; an inset below his portrait shows a slave bemoaning his new freedom. This was undoubtedly printed in London or some other center where refugees of the French and Saint Domingue revolutions congregated in the early 1790s. Seller Inventory # WRCAM45529
Bibliographic Details
Title: L'AMITÉ AUX MÂNES DU CHER THOMAS MAUDUIT, ...
Publisher: [N.p., probably London
Publication Date: 1791
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