"Bonaparte, burlesqued, stands, swaggering, with legs astride, head in profile to the left. In his right hand is a sabre, dripping blood, inscribed 'Egalité'; he holds out the scabbard (chained to his waist) in his left hand. Under his right foot is a torn paper headed 'Nelsons Victory over the Fleet of the Republic'. He wears an enormous cocked hat decorated with feathers, aigrette, tricolour cockade, and crescent. The skirts of his double-breasted military coat fly back, reaching to the ground behind; round his waist is a voluminous fringed sash, in which are thrust a pistol and a jewelled dagger. He declaims, the words in a large label which floats up to the upper margin: ""What? our Fleet captur'd & destroy'd by the Slaves of Britain? \ - "by my Sword & by holy Mahomet I swear eternal Vengeance! - yes, \ - "when I have subjected Egypt, subdued the Arabs, the Druses & the Maronites; \ "become master of Syria, - turn'd the great River Euphrates, & saild upon it through \ "the sandy Desarts; compel'd to my assitance [sic], the Bedouins, Tuscomans [sic], Kurds, \ "Armenians, & Persians; form'd a Million of Cavalry, & pass'd them upon Rafts \ "six or Seven Hundred Miles over the Bosphorus, I shall enter Constantinople - \ - "Now I enter the Theatre of Europe, I establish the Republic of Greece, \ "I raise Poland from its ruins, I make Prussia bend ye knee to France; - \ "I chain up the Russian Bear, I cut the Head from ye Imperial Eagle; \ "I drive the ferocious English from the Archipelago - I hunt them \ "from the Mediterranean, - & blot them out from the catalogue of \ "Nations! - Then shall the conquer'd Earth sue for Peace, \ "& an Obelisk be erected at Constantinople, inscribed \ "To Buanoparte [sic] Conqueror of the World, \ & extirpater of the \ English Nation."" A French dispatch rider, dismounted from a camel whose head is on the left, stands full-face, gaping at the general, hat in hand and with a bundle, 'les Dépéches, under his arm. Behind Bonaparte (right) is part of a tent, of oriental type but decorated with tricolour."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
One line of text below title: See Buonaparte's speech to the French Army at Cairo, publish'd by authority of the Directory in Volney's letters. and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
Erskine stands directed to the left, gazing straight before him; in his right hand is a sheet covered with repetitions of 'i' and 'me', and ending 'iiiiii me me me'. He wears counsellor's wig and gown, and bands. Above his head is a cap of Liberty with tricolour cockade. There is a background of low clouds.
Description:
Plate from: The Anti-Jacobin review and magazine, or, Monthly politique and literary censor. London, 1798, v. 1, page 355. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
J. Wright, No. 169 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Erskine, Thomas Erskine,--Baron,--1750-1823--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Wright, J. (John), 1770?-1844, publisher.
Publication information based on other plates in the same series., Title etched below image., and Twelfth plate of 24 from: Rowlandson, T. Hungarian & Highland broad sword. [London] : H. Angelo, 1799.
Publisher:
[H. Angelo, Curzon Street, May Fair]
Subject (Name):
Angelo, Henry, 1756-1835, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons --England and Satires (Visual works) --England
Publication information based on similar plate in the same series., Seventeenth of 24 plates from: Rowlandson, T. Hungarian & Highland broad sword. [London] : H. Angelo, 1799., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
[H. Angelo, Curzon Street, May Fair]
Subject (Name):
Angelo, Henry, 1756-1835, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons --England and Satires (Visual works) --England
Fifteenth of 24 plates from: Rowlandson, T. Hungarian & Highland broad sword. [London] : H. Angelo, 1799., Publication information based on similar plates in the same series., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
[H. Angelo, Curzon Street, May Fair]
Subject (Name):
Angelo, Henry, 1756-1835, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons --England and Satires (Visual works) --England
Publication information based on similar plates in the same series., Sixteenth of 24 plates from: Rowlandson, T. Hungarian & Highland broad sword. [London] : H. Angelo, 1799., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
[H. Angelo, Curzon Street, May Fair]
Subject (Name):
Angelo, Henry, 1756-1835, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons --England and Satires (Visual works) --England
"The Colossus, emblem of French revolutionary bloodshed and aggression (and perhaps intended for Bonaparte), strides from Egypt (right), where the left foot rests on Pyramids, to 'France', where the right foot tramples on the 'Holy Bible' and a cross. Beneath the Bible lie the dismantled scales of justice. Above, an arm and the shield of Britannia emerge from dark clouds; in the hand is a sheaf of thunderbolts which smites the Colossus, striking off its head, a skull in which serpents twine; from this drops a bonnet-rouge in the form of a fool's cap. The arms and legs of the Colossus have also been broken, so that the figure is on the point of collapse. The severed right hand rests on a guillotine, inscribed 'Fraternité'. The decollated head of Louis XVI [see BMSat 8297, &c] hangs by the hair from the figure's neck. From the left hand drops an open book: 'Religion de la Nature [cf. BMSats 8350, 9240] Injustice Oppression Murder Destruction'. The figure wears only a tricolour sash and belt in which are a pistol and a bloody dagger. Its hands and feet are dyed with blood above the wrists and ankles. Tricolour flags inscribed with names decorate the landscape, showing the extent of French depredations: 'Malta' in the channel immediately under the Colossus; 'Spain' (left) behind 'France'; 'Holland', with windmills; 'Switzerland' backed by rocky mountains; 'Rome' with the dome of St. Peter's. ..."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Destruction of the French colossus
Description:
Title etched below image. and Two lines of quoted text below title: "Shall the works of a wicked nation remain? Shall the monuments of oppression not be destroyed? ..."
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
"The three Bow Street Justices sit at a rectangular table (left); Addington in the chair, the scales of Justice, evenly balanced, above his head; on his right and on the extreme left, Bond(?) is writing: 'Wright. W. against [?]...'. The third sits resting his chin on his hands, which are supported on the head of his cane; he gazes fixedly at the culprit. 'Lying-Jack' stands in a rectangular pen formed of posts and rails immediately in front of the justices, his elbows resting on the rail, his hands clasped, his knees bent, tears falling. He says: "Oh! God dang it, - your Worship, do take bail, your Honor tw'ant my fault please your Majesty, that I com'd the Black-guard over him: - God dang it, didn't he say that his thing was printed before mine? & that all my things were only Copies & piracies? - God dang it, your Worship, Ax Almon ye Bookseller if I was a Blackguard all the while I was a Porter! - or ax ye people where I & Wife kept a small-coal Cellar in Leather Lane if I'm a Blackguard! - God dang it, was I act like a Blackguard when I let that Cooper the Printer, pull me by the Nose, only for saying he was a Liar? - god dang it, your honor, was it like a Blackguard when I offer'd to beg Ridgeway's pardon, after he had kick'd my own Arse in my own Shop? - but I sees how the Booksellers all hates me! & wants to ruin me! - & says I lives by only Copying other peoples works your Worship! - 'tho' I only 'bridges 'em! - yes your Worship, they all hates me; & respires against me: & calls me Lying-Jack, your honor, - & Filching Jack the Plagurist! - & Stock'ee Jack the Informer! your honor - ah Gad dang it! Gad dang it, - they'll be my ruin your Honor! Gad dang it Gott damn. . . .[The last words dwindle into illegibility]" From his pocket hangs a paper: 'Speech of the Lord Chanr of Ireland'. Beside him, outside the dock, is a large bundle of books tied together, the wrapper inscribed 'Ways & Means'; these are: 'Sandford & Merton', 'G Nicol... Abridgd Embassy to China', 'D. Cox, Piracy', 'Harpers Pamphlet', 'Philanthropic Society'. Against the bundle lies a porter's knot (a pad for the shoulders attached to a ring which goes over the head) inscribed: 'Lying-Jack his Knot'. With this are the implements of a blacksmith : hammer, pliers, and horse-shoe. On the wall behind him are three bills: 'Lying Jack the Thief Taker'; 'Perjury'; 'Injuntion [sic] of the Court of Chancery agains Lying Jacks copy', and a map: 'Original Map of the Island of St Domingo by W. Faden. Charing Cross.'"--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Lying Jack the blacksmith at confession and Lying Jack the bookseller at confession
Description:
One line of text below title: Scene: Bow Street, with Lying Jack answering a charge of abuse & blackguardism., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text following imprint: Price 6 d., for the benefit of the Philanthropic Society., and Title etched below image; the word "bookseller" is scored through and the word "blacksmith" is etched above, inserted with a caret.
Publisher:
Lying Jack
Subject (Name):
Addington, William,--Sir,---1811--Caricatures and cartoons., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Bond, Nicholas,---1807--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Stockdale, John,--1749?-1814--Caricatures and cartoons.
