Subject (Name): Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821. / Subject (Topic): French

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1. 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]

2. Coming to the point [graphic].

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Published / Created:: July 1809.
Call Number:: 809.07.00.02+
Image Count:: 1
Description:: Title from item.
Publisher:: Pub'd by J. Johnston 101 Cheapside
Subject (Name):: Charles, Archduke of Austria, 1771-1847. and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):: Aspern-Essling, Battle of, Austria, 1809, Military uniforms, French, and Austrian
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Coming to the point [graphic].

3. Contrasted opinions respecting the new emperor [graphic].

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [16 July 1804]
Call Number:: 804.07.16.03+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Two tiers of single English figures expressing appropriate opinions about the coronation of Napoleon."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in dealer's description. Questionably attributed to Isaac Cruikshank in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.188., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., "Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening"--Below image in lower right., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:: Pubd. July 16th, 1804, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):: France and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):: Foreign public opinion, British, Public opinion, Soldiers, French, Sailors, and British
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Contrasted opinions respecting the new emperor [graphic].

4. Dramatic effect, or, The death of Genl. Duroc vide French Bulletien. [graphic]

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]

5. La derniere cuvée [graphic].

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].