Britannia correcting an unruly boy [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Britannia correcting an unruly boy [graphic]
- Creator
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Contributor
- Fores, S. W., publisher.
- Published / Created
- [13 June 1803]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. June 13th, 1803, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Abstract
-
"Britannia, tall and powerful, holds Napoleon across her knee, and raises a birch rod to thrash his bleeding posterior. She wears Roman draperies, with corslet and plumed helmet. The rod is tied with a ribbon inscribed: 'United Kingdoms'. She says: "There take that and that and that, and be carefull not to provoke my Anger more." He exclaims: "oh forgive me this time and I never will do so again, oh dear! oh dear! you'll entirely spoil the Honors of the Sitting." Beside Britannia (left) are her spear and sword; beside Napoleon (right) his huge cocked hat and sabre. The scene is by the sea (left), with a fleet of retreating vessels flying the tricolour flag. On the right is a cliff on which a small British lion lies on a scroll inscribed: 'Qui uti scit ei bona' [good things to him who knows how to use them]."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Printmaker identified as Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher's advertisement in lower right: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
With watermark: A. Stace.
Matted to 49 x 38 cm. - Provenance
- Roy Young Bookseller; January 2021.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 34.9 x 25 cm, on sheet 38.8 x 27 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 803.06.13.01+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Watermarks (Paper) A. Stace
Satires (Visual works) England 1803
Etchings England London 1803 - 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
Britannia (Symbolic character)
Spanking
Warships
French - Subjects
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Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 > Caricatures and cartoons
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Britannia (Symbolic character)
Spanking
Warships > French
A. Stace
England > 1803
England > London > 1803
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 15712113
- Object ID (OID)
- 33117020