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1. A Gallic idol [graphic]

Creator:: Barth, J. S., active 1797-1808, printmaker
Published / Created:: 20 Augt. 1803.
Call Number:: 803.08.20.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "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
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A Gallic idol [graphic]

2. A great man on his hobby horse a design for an intended statue on the Place La Liberteʹ at Paris. [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1803]
Call Number:: 803.04.00.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Napoleon, immensely elongated, bestrides a prancing horse on the summit of a globe on which 'Swisserla[nd]', 'Germany', and 'Italy' are marked, the upper part only being within the design. Napoleon, in profile to the left, holds a drawn sword inscribed 'Vive La Republique'. The horse is crowned; its collar is inscribed 'Power', the tail-strap 'Libertas'. Below the title: 'A Design for an Intended Statue on the Place la Liberté at Paris.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Design for an intended statue on the Place La Liberteʹ at Paris
Description:: Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., Printmaker and imprint from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Consulate.
Publisher:: Thomas Williamson
Subject (Name):: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A great man on his hobby horse a design for an intended statue on the Place La Liberteʹ at Paris. [graphic]

3. A little man's night's comforts, or, Boney's visions [graphic]

Published / Created:: pubd. 14 July 1803.
Call Number:: 803.07.14.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A little man's night's comforts, or, Boney's visions [graphic]

4. A stoppage to a stride over the globe [graphic].

Creator:: Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker
Published / Created:: Janry. 1, 1807.
Call Number:: Folio 75 W87 807 v.4
Collection Title:: V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Napoleon bestraddles the globe, seated at the Pole, about half of it being between his legs; countries are marked, but without regard to geography. A little figure looks from behind the globe (right) below the conqueror's left toe; his left hand is placed on 'Old England', and he raises a sabre menacingly. Napoleon, a fine figure, wearing an enormous cocked hat, a sabre in his right hand, looks down at the little man, his left arm extended; he says: "Ah, who is it dares interupt me in my Progress." The little fellow answers: "Why 'tis I little Johnny Bull Protecting a little spot I clap my hand on, and d-n. me if you come any Farther that's all." He is a 'cit' with an ill-fitting wig. 'France' lies between 'Switzerland', on which Napoleon's right foot rests, and 'Itali' [north of 'England'], on which is his left leg."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image; lowercase letter "a" preceding "stride" is etched backwards., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Second reissue of a plate first published by Piercy Roberts in 1803 and then reissued by Blacklock in May 1806; Blacklock's imprint statement is scored through but still visible in lower right corner of design. See British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "252" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Watermark: Basted Mill 1817., and Leaf 82 in volume 4.
Publisher:: Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):: John Bull (Symbolic character)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A stoppage to a stride over the globe [graphic].

5. After the invasion the levée en masse, or, Britons strike home. [graphic]

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [6 August 1803]
Call Number:: 802.08.06.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Three volunteers or militiamen, three-quarter length figures, exult at the head of Bonaparte which one of them (right) holds up on a pitchfork, saying, "Here he is Exalted my Lads 24 Hours after Landing." The head is in profile to the left, the sharp well-cut features contrast with those of the chubby yokels. The centre figure, holding out his hat, says, turning to the left: "Why Harkee, d'ye zee, I never liked Soldiering afore, but some how or other when I though [sic] of our Sal the bearns, the poor pigs, the Cows and the Geese, why I could have killed the whole Army my own Self." He wears a smock with the crossed straps of a cartouche-box. The third man (left) in regimentals, but round-shouldered and unsoldierly, says: "Dang my Buttons if that beant the Head of that Rogue Boney - I told our Squire this Morning, what do you think say's I the Lads of our Village can't cut up a Regiment of them French Mounsheers, and as soon as the Lasses had given us a Kiss for good luck I could have sworn we should do it and so we have." All three have hats turned up with favours and oak-twigs, the favours being inscribed respectively (left to right): 'Hearts of Oak'; 'Britons never will be Slaves', and 'We'll fight and We'll Conquer again and again'. In the spaces between these foreground figures is seen a distant encounter between English horse and foot and French invaders, who are being driven into the sea, on which are flat-bottomed boats, all on a very small scale. Two women search French corpses; one says: "why this is poor finding I have emtied the pocketts of a score and only found one head of garlic 9 onions & a parcel of pill Boxes." Cf. British Museum Satires No. 8145."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Levée en masse, or, Britons strike home and Britons strike home
Description:: Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement below image, in lower right: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom.
Publisher:: Pub. Augt. 6th, 1803, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):: Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805, Soldiers, British, French, Militias, Pitchforks, Heads (Anatomy), Decapitations, and War casualties
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > After the invasion the levée en masse, or, Britons strike home. [graphic]

6. An English bull dog and a Corsican blood hound [graphic].

Creator:: Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker
Published / Created:: Jany. [1807]
Call Number:: Folio 75 W87 807 v.4
Collection Title:: V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A sturdy bull-dog, its padlocked collar inscribed 'Iohn Bull', mauls a lean dog with the head and collar of Bonaparte. The latter lies prostrate, his head in profile to the left, mouth wide open, under the paws of John Bull, who savagely bites his back."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker and year of publication from British Museum catalogue., Reissue by Tegg of a plate first published by Piercy Roberts in 1803. Roberts's imprint, "Pubd. by Roberts, 28 Middle Row, Holborn," is present in lower left but has been mostly obscured with etched lines; Tegg's imprint has been added above title. See British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges; plate number obscured by binding., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 44 in volume 4.
Publisher:: Pubd. by T. Tegg, Cheapsid [sic]
Subject (Name):: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > An English bull dog and a Corsican blood hound [graphic].

7. Armed-heroes vide, military appearances at St. Stephens & at St. Cloud's on [the] day of defiance / [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [18 May 1803]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Addington and Napoleon face each other defiantly across a narrow channel. Addington, the nearer, is the larger, and much the taller. He wears regimentals, cocked hat, and shapeless boots; he stands with arms akimbo, sabre in his hand; from each pocket projects a medicine-bottle, one labelled 'Composing Draft', the other 'Stimulating Draft'. He looks at Napoleon with a chop-fallen stare, saying, "who's afraid? damme? - \ O Lord. O Lord - what a Firey Fellow he is! \ - Who's afraid? damme? \ O dear! what will become of ye Roast Beef? \ damme! who's afraid? \ O dear! O dear." (The lines are alternately in large and tiny letters to distinguish between words spoken aloud and to himself.) He straddles across a steaming sirloin on a dish inscribed: 'O the Roast Beef of Old England'. Napoleon, who straddles even more widely, holds the hilt of his sabre; his head is large, his cocked hat grotesquely huge. He glares at the beef, saying, "Ah! ha, sacrè dieu! vat do I see yonder? \ Dat look so invitinly Red & de Vite? - \ Oh by Gar! I see 'tis de Roast Beef of Londres \ Vich I vill chop up, at von letel bite!" (Cf. BMSat 5790.) Behind Addington is the front bench in the House of Commons. Hawkesbury, thin, stooping, and melancholy, his hands on his hips, his arms curiously twisted, says: "Ah who's afraid now of Marching to Paris? ah who's afraid now." Behind Addington's seat stand two dim figures, waving their hats; they say: "who's afraid! Brother Bragg" and "who's afraid Brother Hely" ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched in upper right corner of image., Two lines of text in curly brackets below title: Throughout the world, heroes but two wee [sic] see, great Doctor A-, and little-bouncing B-., and Mounted on leaf 56 of volume 5 of 12.
Publisher:: Pubd. May 18th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
Subject (Name):: Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Armed-heroes vide, military appearances at St. Stephens & at St. Cloud's on [the] day of defiance / [graphic]

8. Boney and Talley the Corsican carcase-butcher's reckoning day. [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: Septr. 1803.
Call Number:: 803.09.00.02+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The interior of a carcass-butcher's slaughter-house, the carcasses of animals suspended from the wall. Through the doorway (l.) is seen a rock rising from the sea on which stands a bellowing bull; at the base of the rock is a British fleet. Napoleon, the butcher, with cleaver and knife, makes frantic efforts to reach the (distant) bull, but is restrained by Talleyrand who holds him round the waist. He wears top-boots, one inscribed '7 Leagues', with apron, and rolled-up shirt-sleeves, showing 'R T' [? 'Returned Transport'] branded on his left. arm. On one flap of Talleyrand's oddly shaped cocked hat is a cross, to indicate the ci-devant Bishop of Autun. The head of the Russian bear looks in at the door, gazing menacingly at Napoleon. In the foreground lies a bulky body from which head, hands, and feet have been chopped; to it is skewered a paper: 'Germanic Body'; the severed r. hand lies on a paper inscribed 'Hanover'. On the extreme left. is a round wicker cage surmounted by the Papal tiara, inscribed: 'From Rome and Not worth Killing'; it contains a fox and other small animals. On the extreme right. is a dog-kennel inscribed 'Prussia' and 'Put up to Fatten'; from it a lean greyhound on a short chain puts out its head to lap greedily at a trough of 'Consular Whipt Syllabub'. Behind this is the butcher's block, on which lies a cleaver; blood drips from it into a receptacle inscribed 'Treasury'. Behind Napoleon, in a trough inscribed 'Jaffa Cross Breed', are the bodies of six turbaned Moslems; blood gushes from the trough into a tank inscribed 'Glory'. On the wall hang carcasses, &c. (l. to r.): a ram ticketed 'True Spanish - Fleec'd'; a bleeding calf's head, a simian creature with a tail labelled 'Native Breed'; an ass, ticketed 'From Switzerland', a bloated pig 'From Holland'. Below the title: 'New Style - No Quarter Day!' The verses are a dialogue between 'Boney and Talley' on the possibilities of plunder and conquest. Talleyrand restrains Bonaparte from a mad rush at the bull, regardless of the intervening water. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Corsican carcase-butcher's reckoning day
Description:: Title from letterpress text below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Probably a later state of a plate originally published with the imprint: Published by J. Ginger, Piccadilly., Text below title: New style-- No quarter day!, Plate serves as a heading for a broadside poem of twenty-nine verses arranged in three columns. The text of the broadside, printed in letterpress below the plate, begins: Says Boney, the butcher*, to Talley his man, one settling-day as they reckon'd ..., Another edition of the broadside, in different type, was also printed in 1803. This edition bore the publication line "Published by J. Ginger, 169 Piccadilly" and the printing line "Printed by D.N. Shury, Berwick Street, SOHO." See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all letterpress text. Title and broadside verses from the Beinecke Library impression., and Mounted to 33 x 34 cm.
Publisher:: Published by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Boney and Talley the Corsican carcase-butcher's reckoning day. [graphic]

9. Boney and Talley the Corsican carcase-butcher's reckoning day. [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [September 1803?]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The interior of a carcass-butcher's slaughter-house, the carcasses of animals suspended from the wall. Through the doorway (l.) is seen a rock rising from the sea on which stands a bellowing bull; at the base of the rock is a British fleet. Napoleon, the butcher, with cleaver and knife, makes frantic efforts to reach the (distant) bull, but is restrained by Talleyrand who holds him round the waist. He wears top-boots, one inscribed '7 Leagues', with apron, and rolled-up shirt-sleeves, showing 'R T' [? 'Returned Transport'] branded on his left. arm. On one flap of Talleyrand's oddly shaped cocked hat is a cross, to indicate the ci-devant Bishop of Autun. The head of the Russian bear looks in at the door, gazing menacingly at Napoleon. In the foreground lies a bulky body from which head, hands, and feet have been chopped; to it is skewered a paper: 'Germanic Body'; the severed r. hand lies on a paper inscribed 'Hanover'. On the extreme left. is a round wicker cage surmounted by the Papal tiara, inscribed: 'From Rome and Not worth Killing'; it contains a fox and other small animals. On the extreme right. is a dog-kennel inscribed 'Prussia' and 'Put up to Fatten'; from it a lean greyhound on a short chain puts out its head to lap greedily at a trough of 'Consular Whipt Syllabub'. Behind this is the butcher's block, on which lies a cleaver; blood drips from it into a receptacle inscribed 'Treasury'. Behind Napoleon, in a trough inscribed 'Jaffa Cross Breed', are the bodies of six turbaned Moslems; blood gushes from the trough into a tank inscribed 'Glory'. On the wall hang carcasses, &c. (l. to r.): a ram ticketed 'True Spanish - Fleec'd'; a bleeding calf's head, a simian creature with a tail labelled 'Native Breed'; an ass, ticketed 'From Switzerland', a bloated pig 'From Holland'. Below the title: 'New Style - No Quarter Day!' The verses are a dialogue between 'Boney and Talley' on the possibilities of plunder and conquest. Talleyrand restrains Bonaparte from a mad rush at the bull, regardless of the intervening water. ..."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of the same composition
Alternative Title:: Corsican carcase-butcher's reckoning day
Description:: Title from letterpress text below image., Printmaker from description of a later state in the British Museum catalogue., Date of publication based on that of probable later state. See British Museum catalogue., Probably an earlier state of a plate later published with the imprint: Published by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, Septr. 1803. Cf. No. 10091 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Text below title: New style-- No quarter day!, Plate serves as a heading for a broadside poem of twenty-nine verses arranged in three columns. The text of the broadside, printed in letterpress below the plate, begins: Says Boney, the butcher*, to Talley his man, one settling-day as they reckon'd ..., At bottom of broadside is printed the additional publication line "Published by J. Ginger, 169 Piccadilly," the printing line "Printed by D.N. Shury, Berwick Street, SOHO," and the price statement "Price two shillings and six pence, coloured." Another edition of the broadside, in a different type and apparently lacking these statements, was also printed in 1803. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., and Mounted on leaf 65 of volume 5 of 12.
Publisher:: Published by J. Ginger, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Boney and Talley the Corsican carcase-butcher's reckoning day. [graphic]