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1. A tit bit for a Cossack, or, The Platoff prize, for the head of Buonaparte [graphic]
- Creator:
- Elmes, William, active 1797-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Jany. 4th 1813.
- Call Number:
- 813.01.04.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The daughter of Count Platoff stands full face, erect, dashing, and alluring, on a snowy mound. Her right hand supports a spear from which floats a banner inscribed: 'I General Count Platoff. promise to give my Daughter in Marriage and 2000 Rubles - to any Cossack, Russian, Prusian, German, Sweede, Turk, John Bull, Sauny Bull Paddy Bull or any other Bull, who shall bring Me the Head of Little Bony dead or a live.' She wears fur-trimmed cap with a long hussar-bag, long high-waisted fur-bordered pelisse, with a cape, fur-trimmed boots, and large ear-rings. The words 'Hih "ho" for a Husband' issue from closed and smiling lips. With her left hand she points behind her to the right and to the little figure of Napoleon on skates, wearing a large plumed bicorne, and brandishing his sabre; he deserts his snow-bound army, saying, "O" ho" bygare I had best be Off." He strides past the heads of soldiers emerging from snow, together with bayonets, and a French flag; behind him the French army marches in close ranks, with one eagle and one flag. On the left is another column of tiny soldiers indicated by heads, bayonets, an eagle, and flags. In the clouds, airborne as in No. 11992 (British Museum catalogue), are two bands of galloping Cossacks, one (right) seems about to swoop down on Napoleon. Heavy clouds frame slanting rays which make a background for Platoff's daughter. At her feet are two money--bags both inscribed '1,000 Rubles', which disgorge coins. Behind them a kneeling Cupid aims his bow towards the 'cloud of Cossacks' on the left."--British Museum catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Tit-bit for a Cossack and Platoff prize, for the head of Buonaparte
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate of publication etched following date., Plate numbered in upper right corner: 184., and A satire on Napoleon in Russia.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Thos Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Geographic):
- Russia.
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Platov, Matveĭ Ivanovich, graf, 1751-1818.
- Subject (Topic):
- Caricatures and cartoons, Campaigns of 1813-1814, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Campaigns, Cupid, Armies, British, Russian, and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A tit bit for a Cossack, or, The Platoff prize, for the head of Buonaparte [graphic]
2. Cossack sports, or, The Platoff hunt in full cry after French game [graphic]
- Creator:
- Elmes, William, active 1797-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [9 November 1813]
- Call Number:
- 813.11.09.01 Impression 2
- Collection Title:
- V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A satire on Napoleon's Russian campaign. "Cossacks, led by Platoff, pursue, across a river, a fox with the head and huge bicorne of Napoleon. The Russians ride their horses through the water. The fox, larger in scale than the other figures, takes a flying leap to the shore (right). He says: "Hark, I hear the Cry of Cossacks. The [sic] have got Scent of me -I must take to my heels once more, the are close to my Brush." His tail is inscribed 'Corsican Fox'. Across the lower edge of the design runs a strip of land on which are frogs; one, inscribed 'French Frog', waddles off, while one on the extreme left is being speared. Of the other frogs a few turn to oppose the Cossacks with bayonets; these have a tricolour flag; the majority are escaping to the right, a row of heads and sloped bayonets, with one eagle. Platoff, whose high fur cap has a long plume inscribed 'Platoff', riding with levelled spear, shouts: "Hark forward my boys get along! he runs in view. Yoics. Yoics. There he goes, Tally-ho!" His daughter, in the middle distance, rides through the water, pointing with the hand that holds the reins, and raising a whip; she shouts: "Hi, ho, Tally, ho! For a husband." Cossacks gallop up from the background (left), leap from a low cliff into the river, and swim through it, one carrying a standard with the Russian eagle, behind the two Platoffs. In the background is a town flying a flag inscribed 'Leapsic'; tiny horsemen, evidently Cossacks, gallop out of the city gate."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Platoff hunt in full cry after French game
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate numbered '218' in upper right corner., and "Price one shilling coloured."--Following imprint statement.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Novr. 9th 1813 by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Geographic):
- Russia. and England
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Platov, Matveĭ Ivanovich, graf, 1751-1818.
- Subject (Topic):
- Caricatures and cartoons, Campaigns of 1813-1814, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Campaigns, Cossacks, and Satires (Visual works)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Cossack sports, or, The Platoff hunt in full cry after French game [graphic]
3. Cossack sports, or, The Platoff hunt in full cry after French game [graphic]
- Creator:
- Elmes, William, active 1797-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [9 November 1813]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.3
- Collection Title:
- V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A satire on Napoleon's Russian campaign. "Cossacks, led by Platoff, pursue, across a river, a fox with the head and huge bicorne of Napoleon. The Russians ride their horses through the water. The fox, larger in scale than the other figures, takes a flying leap to the shore (right). He says: "Hark, I hear the Cry of Cossacks. The [sic] have got Scent of me -I must take to my heels once more, the are close to my Brush." His tail is inscribed 'Corsican Fox'. Across the lower edge of the design runs a strip of land on which are frogs; one, inscribed 'French Frog', waddles off, while one on the extreme left is being speared. Of the other frogs a few turn to oppose the Cossacks with bayonets; these have a tricolour flag; the majority are escaping to the right, a row of heads and sloped bayonets, with one eagle. Platoff, whose high fur cap has a long plume inscribed 'Platoff', riding with levelled spear, shouts: "Hark forward my boys get along! he runs in view. Yoics. Yoics. There he goes, Tally-ho!" His daughter, in the middle distance, rides through the water, pointing with the hand that holds the reins, and raising a whip; she shouts: "Hi, ho, Tally, ho! For a husband." Cossacks gallop up from the background (left), leap from a low cliff into the river, and swim through it, one carrying a standard with the Russian eagle, behind the two Platoffs. In the background is a town flying a flag inscribed 'Leapsic'; tiny horsemen, evidently Cossacks, gallop out of the city gate."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Platoff hunt in full cry after French game
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate numbered '218' in upper right corner., "Price one shilling coloured."--Following imprint statement., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 24.9 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Leaf 77 in volume 3., and On wove paper, hand-colored.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Novr. 9th 1813 by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Geographic):
- Russia. and England
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Platov, Matveĭ Ivanovich, graf, 1751-1818.
- Subject (Topic):
- Caricatures and cartoons, Campaigns of 1813-1814, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Campaigns, Cossacks, and Satires (Visual works)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Cossack sports, or, The Platoff hunt in full cry after French game [graphic]
