The coffin expedition, or, Boney's invincible armada half seas over [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- The coffin expedition, or, Boney's invincible armada half seas over [graphic].
- Alternative Title
- Boney's invincible armada half seas over
- Creator
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Contributor
- Fores, S. W., publisher.
- Published / Created
- [6 January 1804]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. Jany. 6th, 1804, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Abstract
-
"Gunboats in the form of coffins are foundering or about to founder. Each has a single cannon in the bows, and a mast with a triangular sail whose corner is held in the teeth of the skull which surmounts the mast. The crews all wear shrouds and bonnets rouges; on the skulls also are bonnets rouges. Some of the men are screaming in the water, where a floating skull holds the end of a sail in its teeth, looking round fiercely at one of the drowning men. Others are still in the coffin-gunboats, holding muskets or making gestures of despair. One says: "Oh de Corsican Bougre, was make dese Gun Boats on purpose for our Funeral." In the background are two British men of war. Two tiny sailors say: "I say Messmate if we dont bear up quickly there will be nothing left for us to do", and, "Rigt [sic] Tom, & I take them there things at the mast head to be Boney's Crest, a Skull without Brains." A satire on the manifest impracticability of an invasion (see British Museum Satires No. 10008) by gunboats without the command of the sea, cf. British Museum Satires Nos. 9995, &c, 10125, 10223, 10231, 10260, 10277."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher's advertisement beneath imprint: Folios of caracatures lent out for the evening.
Printseller's stamp in lower right corner: S.W.F.
Mounted at the corners: 30 x 42 cm. - Provenance
- Justin Croft; November 2023.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 24 x 35 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 804.01.06.01
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1804
Etchings England London 1804
Stamps - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Subject (Topic)
-
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805
Coffins
Gunboats
Cannons
Rifles
Skulls
Liberty cap
Drowning
Warships
British - Subjects
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Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 > Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805
Coffins
Gunboats
Cannons
Rifles
Skulls
Liberty cap
Drowning
Warships > British
England > 1804
England > London > 1804
Fores, S. W. > Stamp
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 16862977
- Object ID (OID)
- 33113178