Long faces at Bayonne, or, King Nap and King Joe in the dumps [graphic].

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Title: Long faces at Bayonne, or, King Nap and King Joe in the dumps [graphic].
Alternative Title: King Nap and King Joe in the dumps
Creator: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, attributed name.
Walker, Elizabeth, active 1789-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [August 1808]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Augt. 1808 by Walker, No. 7 Cornhill
Abstract: "Napoleon (left) and Joseph sit side by side on low seats or stools, both with a hand on each knee. They have large, elongated heads broadly caricatured (as in British Museum Satires No. 10604, &c.) and look sideways at each other with drawn-down mouths and wrinkled foreheads. Napoleon is in uniform, wearing a feathered bicorne; Joseph wears a crown with Spanish dress, ermine-trimmed robe, and the order of the Golden Fleece. His seat is, very inconspicuously, a commode. At his feet is a sceptre with a scroll inscribed 'Servata Fides Cineri'. Napoleon says: "A pretty piece of Business we have made of it Brother Joe." Joseph: "I always told you Nap, what would come of makeing too free with the Spaniards.""--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker identified as Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue.
Tentative artist attribution to Woodward from the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed.
Watermark: J. Whatman.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; February 2024.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 34.5 x 25 cm, on sheet 35.8 x 26 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English