0Frederic Sorrieu was a French painter and lithographer who was born in 1824. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and his work includes engraver, printmaker, and draughtsman. In 1848, he created a four-print series depicting his vision of a world populated by democratic and socialist republics. La République Universelle démocratique et social is a four-painting series in which he portrays his vision of a future populated by “democratic and socialist republics.”
The first print shows how men and women march across the Statue of Liberty to offer homage to the statue of liberty as they pass by it, whereas the second print shows the statue depicting the right of men by depicting the torch of enlightenment. The third print shows the shattered fragments of the symbols of Absolute institutions lying on the dirt at the forefront of the photograph. People from throughout the world are placed together as various nations in Sorrieu’s print, with flags and national costumes identifying them. People from all around the world moving together on the path of growth are depicted in the fourth print. Sorrieu’s idealised vision of France as a peaceful nation with no borders.
