UCL Art Museum is pleased to announce the launch of Revolution under a King, an exhibition featuring prints from the early, highly volatile years of the French Revolution, when Louis XVI was still on the throne. The French Revolution marked a watershed in the political role of modern media. The exhibition focuses on an often-overlooked period following the Fall of the Bastille in which the king of France still nominally presided over the dissolution of the old feudal order. A collection of vividly coloured prints capture responses, to astonishing events that turned a society upside down, leaving very few people in Europe untouched. The prints produced in this period, using text and image, had a direct effect on the changing sentiments towards the Revolution as it took place, simplifying political issues of extraordinary complexity.

Curated by Emeritus Professor David Bindman and Dr Richard Taws, in a collaboration between UCL Art Museum and UCL History of Art, the exhibition is also accompanied by a series of talks and events that aim to place this period back into our understanding of the French Revolution.

For more information please go to http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/uclart/visit/exhibitions/Revolutionunderaking