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- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [18 October 1803]
- Call Number:
- 803.10.18.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A satire on Napoleon. "The 'dwarf' (Lord Kirkcudbright) stands beside Glumdalclitch's empty chair at the dinner-table. A marrow-bone stands erect on the plate; from this emerges Napoleon, three-quarter length., wearing his bicorne and clenching both fists. The 'dwarf' says: "There you little insignificant Pigmy, I've Bone'd you." Kirkcudbright, in profile to the right., is based on Gillray's caricature, see BMSat 9905, head, figure, dress and sword being closely copied; but he stands chapeau-bras, and the arms and hands are differently posed: r. hand on the edge of the table, left hand held up derisively above Napoleon. The legs are cut off below the knee by the lower margin. On the back of the chair is a crown; on plate, knife, and fork are the Royal Arms."--British Musuen online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Text following title: Vide Swift's Gulliver, Voyage to Brobingnag., and Sheet trimmed with loss of imprint statement. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum. See Registration number 1868,0808.7205.
- Publisher:
- Pubd October 18th 1803 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Kirkcudbright, John Maclellan, Lord, 1729-1801, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, and Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
- Subject (Topic):
- Caricatures and cartoons and Adaptations, parodies, etc
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The King's dwarf plays Gulliver a trick [graphic].
