"A crowded design: the room of a quack doctor or astrologer; Larevellière-Lépeaux sits at his table in a gothic chair; five generals approach him from the right, two others are seated (left) behind his chair. The doctor wears his official (Director'...
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Pubd. June 20th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, La Revellière-Lépeaux, Louis-Marie de, 1753-1824, Jourdan, Jean-Baptiste, 1762-1833, and Kléber, Jean-Baptiste, 1753-1800
"A burlesqued battle-piece. A French army on the sea-shore flees in wild confusion from the fire of a group of English soldiers with a Union flag and two cannon on a low sandy cliff (right). Clouds of smoke suggest an intense cannonade from invisible ...
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Buonaparte landing in Great Britain
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Publishd. June 10th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
"A mounted officer with drawn sabre heads a procession of 'Volunteers' linked by a chain to his horse and to each other. The horse is a well-bred animal with handsome trappings, but the rider is lean and has torn breeches. He is followed by a file of ...
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Pubd. Octr. 25th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Soldiers, French, and Starvation
"The corner of a tailor's fitting-room. A hideous and plebeian Englishman, fat and short-legged, and wearing a curled Brutus wig, looks at his reflection in an elaborately framed wall-mirror crowned with a bonnet-rouge (left). The tailor, a simian mon...
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French tailor fitting John Bull with a Jean de Bry
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Publish'd Novr. 18th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
"Count Starhemberg (left), Austrian Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to England, drives in a post-chaise drawn by two galloping horses past the gate of the Tuileries (right), where Napoleon stands, with straddling legs and outstretched...
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German nonchalance and Vexation of little Boney
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Publishd. Jany. 1st, 1803, by Js. Gillray, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Str
"'The Feast' is a steaming sirloin in a dish inscribed John Bull's Comfort, flanked by (left) a frothing tankard decorated with the Royal Arms and (right) a plum-pudding. The three harpies, Tierney (left), Shuckburgh, and Jekyll (right), malignantly v...
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Harpies defiling the feast
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Pubd. May 7th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
Subject (Name):
Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804, and Jekyll, Joseph, 1754-1837
"Fox, naked and hairy, sits despondently at the foot of a willow tree, from which a lyre hangs by a tricolour ribbon. His eyes are closed, his head is supported on the hand which holds a large book: 'The Beauties of St Ann's Hill'. He sits on the skin...
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Pubd. May 7th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"The fat and clumsy William Dickinson stands on gouty legs in profile to the right, outside the open door of the House of Commons, where Addington is speaking. He stoops, holding a cane in his gloved hand, and from his closed and protruding lips issue...
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Pubd. April 8th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Dickinson, William, 1745-1806, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828
"Jones stands in the House of Commons, directed to the left, staring fixedly, right arm raised, snapping his fingers, left hand in the pocket of his long waistcoat, legs apart. He is corpulent, bald except for his queue, but with bushy whiskers. Behin...
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Pubd. June 9th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"The resigning Ministers issue from the arched gateway of the 'Treasury', led by Pitt (right) who, with an oratorical gesture, holds out a document: 'Justice of Emancipating ye Catholicks'. Behind him is Dundas (Secretary of State for War), holding Pi...
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Pubd. Feby. 24th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Jones, Thomas Tyrwhitt, Sir, 1765-1811, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, and Jekyll, Joseph, 1754-1837
