How you can use this image
Notes
Add or edit a note on this artwork that only you can see. You can find notes again by going to the ‘Notes’ section of your account.
engraving with text inscribed below in French and English 'The inhabitants being informed who the travellers were sounded the alarm, barricaded the bridge and seized the horses. The king's attendants would have killed the fellows that stopt the carriage but the king unwilling to be the cause of bloodshed forbad all resistance and surrendered himself to the Magistrate of the Town'
Title
Louis XVI stopt in his flight at Varennes
Accession number
TRURI : 1000.219
Work type
Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery
River Street, Truro, Cornwall TR1 2SJ England
This venue is open to the public. Not all artworks are on display. If you want to see a particular artwork, please contact the venue.
View venue