V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Napoleon and Marie Louise are awkwardly seated on a throne (right) watching a comet representing the King of Rome, while the child's gouvernante proudly holds him up to gaze at the phenomenon through a telescope. The comet is a disk containing a nake...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sepr. 24, 1811, by Thos. Tegg - 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Bonaparte, François-Charles-Joseph, Herzog von Reichstadt, 1811-1832, and Marie Louise, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1791-1847
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A design in six compartments arranged as in British Museum Satires No. 11811. 'The Race Horse': a jockey stands at the animal's head, his saddle on the ground beside him. 'The War Horse': a hussar, sword in hand, rides a rearing horse over the prostr...
A theatre scene; a man on stage holding a long cane leans towards the box stage left saying: 'Bucks of the Boxes, sneer and talk aloud! I don't mean you.' The rotund young man at the front of the box says 'Boo Boo'; he holds an unfurled sheet of paper...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decemr. 10th, 1811, by Wm. Holland, No. 11 Cockspur St.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Theater audiences, Staffs (Sticks), and Stages (Platforms)
Leaf 39. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two young men and two women dressed in an approximation of seventeenth-century costume with rods and a pile of fish they have just caught."--British Museum online catalogue