After the invasion the levée en masse, or, Britons strike home. [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- After the invasion the levée en masse, or, Britons strike home. [graphic]
- Alternative Title
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Levée en masse, or, Britons strike home
Britons strike home - Creator
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Contributor
- Fores, S. W., publisher.
- Published / Created
- [6 August 1803]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pub. Augt. 6th, 1803, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Abstract
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"Three volunteers or militiamen, three-quarter length figures, exult at the head of Bonaparte which one of them (right) holds up on a pitchfork, saying, "Here he is Exalted my Lads 24 Hours after Landing." The head is in profile to the left, the sharp well-cut features contrast with those of the chubby yokels. The centre figure, holding out his hat, says, turning to the left: "Why Harkee, d'ye zee, I never liked Soldiering afore, but some how or other when I though [sic] of our Sal the bearns, the poor pigs, the Cows and the Geese, why I could have killed the whole Army my own Self." He wears a smock with the crossed straps of a cartouche-box. The third man (left) in regimentals, but round-shouldered and unsoldierly, says: "Dang my Buttons if that beant the Head of that Rogue Boney - I told our Squire this Morning, what do you think say's I the Lads of our Village can't cut up a Regiment of them French Mounsheers, and as soon as the Lasses had given us a Kiss for good luck I could have sworn we should do it and so we have." All three have hats turned up with favours and oak-twigs, the favours being inscribed respectively (left to right): 'Hearts of Oak'; 'Britons never will be Slaves', and 'We'll fight and We'll Conquer again and again'. In the spaces between these foreground figures is seen a distant encounter between English horse and foot and French invaders, who are being driven into the sea, on which are flat-bottomed boats, all on a very small scale. Two women search French corpses; one says: "why this is poor finding I have emtied the pocketts of a score and only found one head of garlic 9 onions & a parcel of pill Boxes." Cf. British Museum Satires No. 8145."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher's advertisement below image, in lower right: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom. - Provenance
- Justin Croft; April 2023.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 25 x 35.4 cm, on sheet 25 x 37 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 802.08.06.01+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Humor
Pictorial works
Caricatures England 19th century
Satires (Visual works) England 1803
Etchings England London 1803 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821. - Subject (Topic)
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Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805
Soldiers
British
French
Militias
Pitchforks
Heads (Anatomy)
Decapitations
War casualties - Subjects
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Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 > Caricatures and cartoons
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 > Humor > Pictorial works
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 > Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805 > Humor > Pictorial works
Soldiers > British
Soldiers > French
Militias
Pitchforks
Heads (Anatomy)
Decapitations
War casualties
England > 19th century
England > 1803
England > London > 1803
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 16649591
- Object ID (OID)
- 33117082