[The recording angel] [graphic]

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Title: [The recording angel] [graphic]
Alternative Title: Frontispiece, Britannicus to Buonaparte : an heroic epistle
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Tresham, Henry, 1749?-1814 artist.
Hatchard, John, 1768-1849 publisher.
Published / Created: [1 November 1803]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Novr. 1st, 1803, for the author by I. Hatchard, No. 199 Piccadilly, London
Abstract: "In the upper part of the design the Recording Angel (or Truth) draws or engraves on an oval shield which she rests on a pedestal. On it are depicted French soldiers bayoneting defenceless Turks (apparently adapted from BMSat 10062). In the background are the head of a Sphinx, and clouds. Against the pedestal on which Truth stands rests a picture, filling the lower part of the design. Napoleon kneels on a rock, extending imploring arms towards Nilus, a nude and muscular figure seated on rock from which water gushes. Nilus veils and averts his head. In the background are pyramids and palm-trees."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title devised by cataloger; varying form of title from British Museum catalogue.
Frontispiece to the second edition of Britannicus to Buonaparte, an heroic epistle, with notes / by Henry Tresham.
Provenance: Bernard Quartich; July 2001;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 29.7 x 21.7 cm, on sheet 30 x 22 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1803
Etchings England London 1803
Book illustrations England London 1803
Frontispieces
Material: etching with aquatint, stipple & roulette ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1803
England > London > 1803
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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