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2.
- Published / Created:
- [3 April 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.04.03.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Turkish soldiers, scattered over a wide parade-ground, are being instructed in squads, groups, and as individuals, by French officers. In the foreground a Turkish potentate, the Sultan or perhaps the Grand Vizier, leans against the stump of a tree, turning his head in profile to the left to watch the soldiers. At his feet (left) kneels a Black enslaved person who is filling a long pipe; beside him a fire burns on a tiny tripod. On the right a Frenchman pulls the long moustache of a Turk, striking him with his cane. Next, three awkward Turks are being taught musket drill. On the left a Turk threatens an officer, drawing his sabre. In the middle distance a Frenchman puts his hand on the projecting stomach of an obese Turk, to make his attitude more soldierly. In the background are a marching squad (left) and a firing squad (right) and, beyond, an officer is attacked by three Turks with sabres raised to strike. Behind (left) is a Turkish fort. The officers are not caricatured nor is their dress exaggerated. The Turks wear baggy trousers with either a fez or a turban; all have long moustaches."--British Museum online catague
- Description:
- Title engraved below image, in two lines., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Richard Bull (1725-1806) attritbutes the print to Isaac Landmann of Woolwich on his undated copy in an album held in the British Museum. See Museum number: 1931,0413.185., This image was first published in Vienna by Hieronymus Löschenkohl and then engraved once again by Johann Martin Will Augsburg in 1783., Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with monogram CP at the bottom and countermark Patoh., and Ms. annotation in contemporary hand, numbered '64'.
- Publisher:
- Published April 3rd, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Selim III, Sultan of the Turks, 1761-1808
- Subject (Topic):
- Austro-Turkish War, 1788-1790, Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792, Black people, Clothing & dress, Turkish, Daggers & swords, Hats, Forts & fortifications, Military inspections, Military officers, French, Military training, Military uniforms, Pipes (Smoking), Tableware, Rifles, Soldiers, and Enslaved people
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A representation of the Turks threatened with war learning in a hurry the French manual excercise [graphic].
3.
- Published / Created:
- August 13, 1804.
- Call Number:
- 804.08.13.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Napoleon, pushing an officer before him through a pillared doorway, looks back to speak to a monk and a sansculotte, shackled together, who drag a car in which is an imperial crown. They hold a large scroll inscribed: 'Most religious Sovereign - the benefactor of the church - the patron of liberty - the scourge of tyrants, and the defender of our most holy religion; may you long fill the Imperial Chair, and diffuse over a free and happy people all the blessings of your auspicious government.' Demons fly round a tricolour flag which floats from the car. Napoleon holds out a scroll headed: 'Address, &c. &c. &c. The Legions of France congratu - ', saying, "This token of your gratitude, my dear subjects will ever stimulate me to protect your liberties - to promote your happiness - and to preserve my empire from the ravages of war, tyranny and oppression." The officer, with a cynical smile, says: "Patron of Liberty - Defender of our most holy Religion - free and happy People - Ha! ha! ha! - What may we not expect? - Has he not got them under excellent subjection?" On the left is Napoleon's 'Secret Chamber': a table is covered with maps and plans; a large map, partly unrolled, shows Europe from '[En]gland to [Tur]key', including the 'Black Sea'; another map shows 'Suez' and the 'Red Sea'. A demon under the table holds up a large pile of papers: 'Plans against England'; on the floor are similar piles: 'Religion' and 'Treaties'. There are also 'Plans against Germany and Turkey', and a paper: 'Mem. the chance of the conquest of England is worth the sacrifice of one third of the people of France. Item. As Charlemaine not only conquered Italy, but the whole of Germany, and left the Imperial dignity hereditary in the Sovereigns of France, it is indispensably necessary to obtain possession of Germany, in order to support the dignity of the Gallic empire.' On the wall are three pictures: 'Sacking of Rome', 'Dissolution of the National Assembly' [see British Museum Satires No. 9426, &c], and 'View of Cairo' [see British Museum Satires No. 9358, &c.]. Below the design: 'Explanation. The two figures bringing the Imperial crown . . . represent . . . the bitter Enemies of Aristocracy, and the staunch Supporters of the late Monarchial Government, tackled to the National Machine, and reduced to the most abject State of Slavery by the Influence of the Military, whose congratulatory Address Bonaparte has received at the Hand of an Officer, and is introducing him into his Secret Chamber to receive Instructions. The Demons hovering over the Imperial Crown denote Five Years of Destruction; during which Period Bonaparte will overrun and ravage the greater Part of the Continent of Europe, be the Means of nearly depopulating Turkey, and finally be slain with the Sword, be cast out as an abominable Branch, and be left as Dung to rot on the Face of the Earth."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title printed in letterpress above image., Text above imprint statement: For particulars respecting the ingress, progress and regress of the Gallic Empire, as represented in prophecy, see the publications entitled "The Prophetic Mirror," and "The Emperor of the Gauls," by L. Mayer; to be had at Parson's Library, Ludgate-Hill; and T. Williams, Stationers'-Court., Print was apparently sold separately, but also used as a folding plate in: Mayer, L. The prophetic mirror, or, A hint to England. London : Printed by C. Stower and sold by T. Williams, 1804., and "Price 1s. coloured."--Following imprint.
- Publisher:
- Published by L. Mayer, as the act directs and Bryer, printer, Bridge Street, Blackfriars
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Subject (Topic):
- Military officers, French, Monks, Flags, Ethnic stereotypes, Shackles, Crowns, Columns, Demons, and Maps
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A representation of the present state of France [graphic].
4.
- Creator:
- Edelinck, Gérard, 1640-1707, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1707]
- Call Number:
- Portraits B484 no. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait of Claude Berbier du Metz, half-length, looking right, in oval in rectangular frame; coat of arms at the base
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Place and date of publication based on printmaker death date and known place of residence.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Military officers and French
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Claude Berbier du Metz, Lieutenant General des armées du Roy et de l'artillerie [graphic]
5.
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [9 June 1813]
- Call Number:
- 813.06.09.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The interior of a tent. Duroc, in his shirt, lies supported by a soldier on a wooden bed, while Napoleon (right) holds his right hand, turning away (to the right) and covering his face with his left hand. An officer stands solicitously beside the Emperor, supporting his left elbow. Another officer stands (left) behind the head of the low bed. On the extreme left a soldier bends over a table compounding medicaments. Duroc's coat and sword lie on a camp-stool, beside his hat and boots. A glimpse of the distant camp is seen on the extreme right, where a Mameluke stands by the tent holding Napoleon's horse. Duroc is addressing the Emperor, with his left arm extended. Their words are etched below the title: "Duroc, "My whole life has been consecrated to your service, nor do I regret its loss, but for the use it still might have been of to your Buonaparte, "Duroc!" there is a life to come; it is there you are going to wait for me, and where we shall one day meet again!" Duroc, "Yes Sire! but that will not be these thirty years, when you will have triumphed over your enimies [sic], and realised all the hopes of your country, I have lived an honest man: I have nothing to reproach myself with, ah! Sire! go away this sight gives you pain--Be, "Farewell then my friend"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Dramatic effect, or, The death of General Duroc, Death of Genl. Duroc, and Death of General Duroc
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., and Watermark: 1809.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 9th, 1813, by Wm. Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street
- Subject (Name):
- Duroc, Géraud Christophe Michel, duc de Frioul, 1772-1813 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Subject (Topic):
- Death and burial, Generals, French, Military officers, Soldiers, Military camps, Deathbeds, War casualties, Wounds & injuries, and Medicines
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Dramatic effect, or, The death of Genl. Duroc vide French Bulletien. [graphic]
6.
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [13 January 1804]
- Call Number:
- 804.01.13.01+
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two designs placed side by side, the title so arranged that 'The Contrast' applies to both, the first four and last two words to the two designs respectively. [1] A scene outside Jaffa where the French flag flies from a fort on a rock at whose base are hospital tents (left), in which the sick can be seen. In the foreground Napoleon (a poor portrait) points with an imperious gesture to a bottle of 'Opium' in the hand of a distressed doctor in civilian dress. He says: "Don't talk to me of Humanity & the feelings of a generous heart, I say Poison those Sick dogs they are a burthen to me, & can no longer fight my Battles!!! I say destroy them - As for those Turks, them up in the Garrison, turn all the Guns upon them, Men, Women, & Children & blow them to atoms, they are too bold & resolute for me to suffer them to live, they are in my Way." In the middle distance (left) is a body of Turks, their arms tied behind them, guarded by a French soldier who points at Napoleon. Behind Napoleon two French officers exchange glances, acutely dismayed at the orders." ... [2] Two black soldiers, in neat regimentals, prepare to kill three haggard French officers. One raises an axe to smite a bound prisoner. Two British officers (left) interpose with outstretched arms; one says: "We know they are our Enemies, & yours, & the Enemies of all Mankind, nevertheless Humanity is so strongly planted in the Breast of an Englisman [sic], that he can become an humble beggar, for the lives, even of his enemies, when they are subdued." The other adds: "A mercy unexpected, undeserved surprises more."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Contrast to English humanity
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement in lower right: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Mounted on a 19th-century blue album sheet. On the verso are newspaper clippings on a variety of topics: Sir Lionel Darell and the benevolence of the King to grant him land for his greenhouses in Richmond Park; "Observations on the rot of sheep"; Poem entitled "Leamington Spa"; "Balloon Ascension" an extract from a letter from Bristol, dated Sept 26.; an report of the death of Simon Southward, a miller who was a prisoner for 43 years for debt and the delusion of being the Earl of Derby.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jany. 13, 1804, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Subject (Topic):
- Black people, Flags, French, Forts & fortifications, Tents, Military medicine, Sick persons, Soldiers, Physicians, Opium, Military officers, Prisoners of war, Turkish, British, Physical restraints, and Axes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > French alias Corsican villainy, or, The contrast to English humanity [graphic].
7.
- Creator:
- Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1767?]
- Call Number:
- 49 3641 Shelved as 49 2523
- Collection Title:
- Page 181. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- French officer and English alehouse man and Officer francois / by Miss Conway
- Description:
- Title and statement of responsibility from note in ink on a five of clubs playing card (60 x 86 mm) mounted below drawing; alternative title and statement of responsibility written in pencil at top of image: Officer francois, by Miss Conway., Date inferred from the use of artist Anne Seymour Damer's maiden name Conway; she was married to John Damer in 1767., and Mounted on page 181 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
- Subject (Topic):
- Military officers, French, Ethnic stereotypes, Drinking vessels, and Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > French officer & English alehouse man [art original]
8.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [17 October 1808]
- Call Number:
- 808.10.17.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- As the result of the Convention of Cintra, French general Junot is shown vomiting, with great effort, a large booty of gold coins, candlesticks, church plate, watches, and other valuables while a Portuguese kneeling in front of him attempts to catch as many items as possible into an already-disgorged silver basin. To Junot's right stands John Bull in sailor's clothes and ill-fitting wig. He is holding the general's head in order to help him rid himself of his plunder. Three French officers on the left watch the above scene with dismay and anger
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. October 17, 1808 by R. Ackermann, N 101 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Junot, Jean Andoche, duc d'Abrantès, 1771-1813.
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Convention of Cintra, Military officers, French, Military uniforms, Vomiting, and War destruction & pillage
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Junot disgorging his booty [graphic]
9.
- Published / Created:
- 1815.
- Call Number:
- 815.07.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "French soldiers are being cooked or drowned in a big round vat built of stone, under which a fire is burning. Blücher (left) and Wellington (right) stand over the vat, holding long-handled perforated ladles with which they skim the surface of the water, fishing out the soldiers. Blücher (left), saying "Mon cher Welington je commence a écumer j'espere que vous me Seconderez," holds on his level ladle a hussar in large busby, braided tunic, and boots. Wellington holds up on his (tilted) ladle a man hanging head downwards. Beside the vat (right) is a rocky cone from a fissure in which the flames of Hell emerge; Cerberus, a monster with three serpentine necks and webbed wings, reaches from the opening towards Wellington's captive, and devours his legs with two of his great jaws. Wellington answers: "mon ami Blucher je sais pret a vous suivre mais surtout travaille fort cette nuit." Other soldiers struggle to get out or sink back hopelessly. An eagle (standard) projects from the water, on which float many tricolour cockades. Wellington's victim, who has a moustache, is not Napoleon, who is a subordinate figure, struggling to get out, and extending his arms towards Wellington."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Possibly a copy of a print by George Cruikshank entitled "The last tub-full"; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.8222., After the Battle of Waterloo, so after June 1815., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von, 1742-1819, and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Subject (Topic):
- Cerberus (Greek mythology), Cooking utensils, Generals, French, Military officers, Prussian, Soldiers, and Vats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > La derniere cuvée [graphic].
10.
- Published / Created:
- 1826.
- Call Number:
- 826.00.00.90+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A Portuguese soldier and a British soldier, facing each other, co-operatively seize Ferdinand VII, who is putting his left foot across a line dividing Spain (right) from Portugal. Each holds a musket without bayonet. The Englishman's right hand is on Ferdinand's shoulder; the Portuguese clutches one of the King's ass's ears. Ferdinand wears a crown, a long cloak, and a spiky ruff. A French officer on the extreme right makes off to the right, shocked and alarmed; he looks over his shoulder, exclaiming, Sacré dieu! le pauvre bete est attrappée."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., From British Museum online catalogue Curator's comments: The Frenchman is evidently the Marquis de Moustier, French Ambassador at Madrid, who appeared covertly to countenance Ferdinand's support of the Portuguese refugees, and was recalled in disgrace., and Original price "2/-" written in ink in lower right corner of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
- Subject (Geographic):
- Spain
- Subject (Name):
- Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, 1784-1833 and Moustier, Clément Edouard, Marquis de, 1779-1830.
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Soldiers, British, Portuguese, Military officers, French, and Firearms
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Putting his foot in it [graphic].
