Bloody Boney the carcass butcher left of trade and retiring to Scarecrow Island [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Bloody Boney the carcass butcher left of trade and retiring to Scarecrow Island [graphic].
- Alternative Title
- Bloody Boney the carcass butcher left off trade and retiring to Scarecrow Island
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Contributor
- Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [12 April 1814]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. 12 April 1814 by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
- Abstract
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"Napoleon, riding on an ass, with Marie Louise seated behind him, approaches the coast, with the 'Island of Elba' on the horizon (right). Just in front of him the King of Rome rides a mastiff inscribed 'Corsican Dog'; the child points with a switch at the island, and looks round at his father registering furious anger. Napoleon stares in agonized dismay, his hands raised in astonished protest. He wears a peaked cap inscribed 'Fools Cap'; the coat of his accustomed uniform, breeches unbuttoned at the knee, and wrinkled stocking showing bare leg. In front of him hangs a small sack: 'Bag of Brown Bread'. Marie Louise (see British Museum Satires No. 12218) is a dishevelled termagant, her left hand resting heavily on Napoleon's shoulder. She turns to thrash the donkey, her open mouth indicating an angry scream; she raises a bludgeon inscribed 'Baton Marechâle' [cf. No. 12088]. The boy wears a single garment over bare legs; a tight childish cap is tied to his head; from his waist hangs a dagger. The dog bays at the sight of the sea. Behind the ass walks an elderly and old-fashioned French post-boy, with heavy boots and whip and wearing a cocked hat. He clenches a fist, and extends a leg as if kicking, and screams: "Be gar you Cocquin now I shall drive my Old Friends and bonne Customers de English Vive Le Roi et le Poste Royale." Beside the ass's head is the upright of a gibbet-shaped sign-post inscribed 'Road to Elba'; from this hangs a noose. Two carrion birds fly past it towards Napoleon, one holding in its beak a paper: 'We Long to pick your Bones.' Over Elba is the customary flight of (carrion) birds. Against the shore lie two small boats, one has a mast; in the other sits a man."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Plate numbered "323" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 23 in volume 5. - Provenance
- Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left. Myers; May 1942.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 24.9 x 36 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 42 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.5
- Collection Title
- V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1814
Etchings England London 1814
Watermarks (Paper) 1817 - Material
- etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Marie Louise, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1791-1847 - Subjects
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Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 > Caricatures and cartoons
Marie Louise, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1791-1847 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1814
England > London > 1814
1817
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 12898754
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192568