"A symbolical bust of Napoleon, dressed as a Roman emperor, is on a rectangular base on which are title and inscription : 'Symbolical of the Effects produced by that Cause which the enlightened [image of a fox] in [the] Eighteenth Century sagaciously predicted would ultimately prove a Stupendous Monument of Human Wisdom!!!' The head is turned in profile to the left; the features are conventional but express ferocity, with glaring eye and fierce frown. It wears a fantastic helmet wreathed with laurel from which blood drips. The wreath is entwined by serpents, whose (three) heads are clustered at the back with words in large letters issuing from their jaws: 'Rapine', 'Lust', 'Murder'. The word 'Invasion' issues in the same manner from the mouth. Above the wreath the helmet is encircled by a band on which are quasi-zodiacal signs: a scorpion, a sickle, a crescent, an arrow, a caduceus, a goat-like monster. On the helmet sits a grinning Devil, playing a fiddle and spreading his webbed wings over the idol's head, while from under one wing Death, a skeleton, peers out; he holds a javelin poised to strike and a cup of poison inscribed 'Jaffa' [see British Museum Satires No. 10063]. The shoulders are covered by drapery, drawn aside to reveal (rotten) ribs and a torn and bleeding heart which is transfixed by a dagger and a barbed spear. A scroll floats from the dagger inscribed 'Wilsons Narrative'; the spear has a scroll inscribed 'British Press' and is surmounted by a cap of Liberty. Fragments torn from the heart are inscribed 'Acre' [see British Museum Satires No. 9412], 'Egypt' [see British Museum Satires No. 9250, &c], and 'Irel[and]', while in the middle of the heart is a triangular patch: 'England'. The heart is surmounted by a crown made of blood-stained daggers with a central fleur-de-lis."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., With an accompanying sheet of letterpress text describing: The crest, The helmet, and The heart., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge.
Publisher:
Published by R. Cribb and Printed by Cox and Baylie, Great Queen Street
Subject (Geographic):
France, Great Britain., Great Britain, and France.
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Wilson, Robert, Sir, 1777-1849.
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805, Foreign relations, Devil, and Skeletons
"A naked, bald, and grotesquely obese man stands on the tips of his toes about to plunge, or rather topple, into a bath, in which he admires, Narcissus-like, his own absurd reflection. He is poised on a platform projecting over the bath; behind him stands a comely young woman, watching in astonishment. A flesh-brush is beside her, another is on a seat on the opposite side of the bath, where a print of Narcissus is on the wall. An ugly old woman's head looks through a small rectangular aperture up m the wail; she is much amused at the scene. On the wall is a placard: 'Glowcocks Bagnio Cold and Hot Baths Cupping Sweating and otherwise cleansing the body performed here Lodgings for Gentlemen.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed with plate mark on top edge.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 6, 1803, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand, London
Subject (Name):
Narcissus (Greek mythological character),
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Public baths, Obesity, Therapeutic baths, Bathing, Nudes, and Signs (Notices)
In the center a couple in traditional dress dance the fandango holding castanets and accompanied by two men with guitars (right), one standing, the other seated. An elderly woman sleeps in the chair behind the dancers. Four other women sit on chairs along the wall and watch the dancers; the young men stand and watch the dancers, some smoking pipes or holding walking sticks. On the wall hang three views of ships in the harbor and the coastal town. A dog looks on from the lower left
Description:
Title etched below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 20, 1803 by William Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Audience, Dance, Dancers, Dog, Guitars, and Spectators
A group of men dining around a table, one pouring gravy into the pocket of another
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '309' in lower left corner., From he Laurie & Whitlle Droll's series., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls were executed either by Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Two lines of text below title: Old man. Hey Hey; what are you doing, do you mean to pick my pocket. O no Sir, only observing you put a fowl there, I have taken the liberty to help you to a little gravy, as it would be dry eating of itself., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Augt. 8, 1803 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '285' in lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Four lines of text below title: Well Norse how was mine patient by dish time? -Much better Sir, the medicines had great effect ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: German Physicians -- Medicine Bottles -- Harlequins -- Medical Disease: Colitis.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 1st, 1803, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Napoleon in bed wearing a nightshirt holds a map of Malta while visions of soldiers poisoned in the hospital at Jaffe, the massacre at Paris 18 Vendémiaire, the invasion of England, ghosts of the 3800 murdered Turks on the sand hills of Syria, the surrender of Ajacio in 1793, Wellington seeking revenge, his attempted poisoning, and murder by his own soldiers fill the room
Alternative Title:
Boney's visions
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist tentatively identified as Lt-Col Thomas Braddyll, a young amateur who supplied designs for satirical prints to James Gillray. See British Museum online catalogue., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., For a later print with a similar theme and title, see no. 11736 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 9., and Watermark: Russel & Co. 1799.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 and Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805
Title etched below image., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Four lines of caption below title: "It was in Switzerland I recollect, during a severe Winter, that a peasant his wife & four children, a cow, three goats & a jack ass, subsisted four months in the heart of a large turnip"____You are very right, I was at Zurich, at the same time & there was then making a copper boiler of such magnitude that altho' 30 men were employ'd hammering in the inside, they were at such a distance, as not to hear the sound of each others hammers"____"Bless my soul, what did they want with such a large copper?____Why to boil your turnip in.", Plate numbered '322' in lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 1, 1803, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Number 284 in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Three lines of caption below title: (A polite bow from both parties) Lord. "Sir your face is quite familiar to me, I must have seen you somewhere before, will you do me the honor to tell me your name.", Plate numbered '284' in lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Margate -- Bathing Machine -- Fan -- Parasol -- Pantaloons.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1803 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Two lines of caption below title: "I am glad to see you my dear Tom, but you must excuse me asking you in this morning. I've a particular quiz with me: an old Colonel & he hates strangers." "O' very well my boy I'll excuse you: I suppose he was here last night; I see his boots.", Plate numbered '320' in lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 1, 1803, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
