A phantasmagoria, or, A review of old times [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- A phantasmagoria, or, A review of old times [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Review of old times
- Creator
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Contributor
- Williamson, T., publisher.
- Published / Created
- March 9th, 1803.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pub. by T. Williamson, N. 20 Strand, London
- Abstract
-
"A magician stands full face with uplifted sabre held over the heads of two figures from the past whom he has called up, and who stand within a magic circle. He displays them to their modern descendants, a tall stout Frenchman plainly dressed, wearing cocked hat and military boots, who stands with his arm on the shoulder of a thin, wretched, shambling, Englishman, small, ugly, and foppish, his hand thrust through an empty pocket. The magician has a beard, but features, cocked hat, consular dress, and sabre indicate Napoleon. He asks: "Are you satisfied Gentlemen?" The apparitions (left) are a grossly obese Englishman in old-fashioned dress, a cane hanging from his right wrist, and an ugly, tall, cadaverous, and foppish Frenchman holding a snuffbox. They say, respectively: "Is that my Grandson Jack? what a skeleton!!!"; "Ah mon Cousin, vat you eat de Beef & Plum Pudding!!" Their surprised successors exclaim: "Bless me! why I am a mere Stump of a man to him!!! and viable my Cousin look like de Frog & John Bull look like de Ox but Grace a Dieu times are Changed!!" Beside the magician are symbols of his art: a globe, a crocodile, a scroll, a skull. Within the circle and beside the French apparition is a frog."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
- Title etched below image.
- Provenance
- Jarndyce; March 2021.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 25.0 x 36 cm, on sheet 26.3 x 41 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 803.03.09.01+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
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)
-
Magicians
Daggers & swords
Globes
Ethnic stereotypes
Obesity - Subjects
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Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Magicians
Daggers & swords
Globes
Ethnic stereotypes
Obesity
England > 1803
England > London > 1803
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 15749781
- Object ID (OID)
- 33118994