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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [26 November 1804]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "France, a savage virago, dandles a tiny Napoleon seated on her right. hand and wearing a royal robe over his military dress. Above her head she holds a rattle with bells surmounted by a crown. She grins at the mannikin, singing: "There's a little King Pippin "He shall have a Rattle & Crown, Bless thy five Wits my Baby "Mind it dont throw itself down! Hey my Kitten, my kitten &c &c. Below the design is a note: '"False of Heart, light of Ear, bloody of Hand, "Fox in Stealth, Wolf in Greediness, Dog in Madness, "Lion in Prey: - bless thy Five Wits" - vide Shakespeares King Lear' Beside her (l.) is the plain wicker cradle from which she has snatched Napoleon, who points eagerly at the crown on the rattle, holding up a sceptre. She wears a bonnet rouge with tricolour cockade, a loose dress defining her figure, and sits in a small armchair, decorated with little decollated heads and a guillotine. Hand, dress, and the heads on the chair are blood-stained. Beside her are her spear, dripping blood, and shield; this is tricolour; on it is the bleeding head of Louis XVI above a reversed crown, with the inscriptions: 'Vive la Republique' and 'The Last of Kings'. Pose, shield, and spear suggest a comparison (and contrast) with Britannia."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 77 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publishd. Novr. 26, 1804, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The genius of France nursing her darling [graphic]