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1. 5 guineas bounty wanted, a few notorious Jacobin scoundrels, to serve Napoleon Buonaparte, late tyrant of France, &c.
- Published / Created:
- [1814]
- Call Number:
- File 82 814F
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Alternative Title:
- Five guineas bounty. Wanted, a few notorious Jacobin scoundrels and Wanted, a few notorious Jacobin scoundrels
- Description:
- Title from item., Text continues: The advantages in this corps are expected to be very great, as they will have the exquisite pleasure of each others company, in the delightful Island of Elba, in the Botanybay of Tuscany., A handbill presumably issued shortly after Napoleon's abdication and exile to St. Helena in April 1814., With a woodcut illustration of a winged devil at head., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Subject (Topic):
- Jacobites and Devil
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > 5 guineas bounty wanted, a few notorious Jacobin scoundrels, to serve Napoleon Buonaparte, late tyrant of France, &c.
2. A congress for peace [graphic]
- Creator:
- Brooke, William Henry, 1772-1860, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1 September 1813]
- Call Number:
- 813.09.01.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Plate from the 'Satirist', xiii. 193. In the text the title continues '. . ., "alias" War'. A satire on the Congress of Prague. Four sovereigns, completely unlike the men in question, in conference. The Tsar sits behind a small rectangular table on which are displayed implements of war in miniature: cannon, pyramids of cannon-balls, muskets, swords, drums, &c., and flags on one of which are fleurs-de-lis. On the left stand the King of Prussia and the Emperor of Austria, on the right is Napoleon. Alexander extends his hands rhetorically, turning to the left, with a puckered scowl, to say to the two Germans: "Come Gentlemen see first if you can agree--if not we'll all fight!" He has quasi-Kalmuck features, and wears an odd-shaped crown, an ermine-bordered robe, with a jewelled necklace and a Greek cross. Frederick William III, on the extreme left, clutches the hilt of his sword and puts his left hand to his cocked hat as if ready to doff it, he turns to Francis I, towards whom a label issues from his mouth: "I am ready to treat or to fight"; a second label floats to the left, inscribed 'Infernal Scoundrel'. Francis I, looking distracted, stands directed to the right, legs apart, and in his left hand is his sabre, the blade of which curves over the Tsar's head, but both hands touch his crown, and he says: "I will wear an independant Crown." He wears hussar uniform, cloak, sash, and elaborately embroidered tunic and pantaloons. Napoleon, tall and burly, with heavy whisker and aquiline profile, wears a plumed bicorne with tricolour cockade and very tattered uniform leaving his legs almost bare, with one dilapidated jack-boot and one damaged stocking; he has a long sword. He stands aggressively with arms dramatically extended, saying, "My Friends! all we wish is Peace." A chain is attached to each great toe, which is fastened to the necks of two miserable princes, tiny figures standing between his outstretched legs. One (left), Charles IV of Spain, wearing a crown and robe, grotesquely knock-kneed and despairing, stands full-face. The other, wearing a crown with uniform and sword, stoops in profile, looking up abjectly at Napoleon's legs. On the extreme right, in the middle distance, is a tall Spanish don, much emaciated, wrapped in a cloak. He looks down with folded arms at a fat British officer beside him, who says: "I ll countenance Austria into our interests." The Spaniard: "I'll be damned if I go to meet a Frenchman in Prague, while there is a Frenchman to meet in Spain!!!" Behind them in the background a tiny Napoleon, wearing a grotesque crown and holding a sword, marches downhill at the head of his soldiers carrying flags; he has a melancholy expression and approaches the edge of a precipitous descent."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Satirist 1st September 1813
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date of publication from text above image: Satirist 1st September 1813., and Plate from: The satirist, or, Monthly meteor, v. 13, page 193.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825, Frederick William III, King of Prussia, 1770-1840, Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835, Charles IV, King of Spain, 1748-1819, and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Subject (Topic):
- Heads of state, Summit meetings, Cannons, Flags, Military uniforms, Daggers & swords, Crowns, and Chains
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A congress for peace [graphic]
3. A nation & her m-n-t-r's [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1820?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 835G v.2 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An allegorical design. Britannia, holding her shield and a cap of Liberty on a staff, rushes (right to left) with a calm expression to the edge of a cliff, urged on by Wellington and five other Ministers (scarcely characterized). On her right a man snatches the drapery from a small cloud-borne figure of Fortune with her wheel, who is directed towards an oval portrait of Queen Caroline supported by an angel. Fame holds a laurel wreath above the portrait. Below the cliff or rock from which Britannia steps so heedlessly is a patch of ground surrounded by sea. On this stands Burdett, holding out a scroll inscribed 'Magna Char[ta] Liberty of Napoleon' and holding out his left arm to prevent Britannia from falling. Justice stands behind him, holding evenly balanced scales. Four other men stand close behind him, one holding out a scroll inscribed 'Reform', and supporting the arm which holds the scales. A man in shirt-sleeves kneels at Burdett's feet, making a gesture of urgent entreaty. On a rock (right), symbolizing St. Helena but merging with Britannia's cliff, sits a spotted, sub-human Caliban-like creature, who holds a small image of Napoleon, which he is about to cover with an extinguisher. At the base of the rock, but in the background, are two tiny officers in military uniform, seated together at the edge of the sea, directed to the right. In the foreground (left) sits a woman (? France) in classical draperies, holding a sceptre, with a (? Bourbon) crown falling from her head, and with a second (? imperial) crown in her lap. She gazes towards St. Helena. Inset in the title and enclosed within a border inscribed 'Honi soit qui mal y pense': 'Wilson sçut délivrer une Noble victime Burdett, Hobhouse, Holland, sauvez Napoléon, Arrachez-le aux tourmens de l'exécrable Hudson, Vengez l'honneur Anglais flétri par un grand Crime Et sauvez Albion sur le Bord de l'Abême [sic]!!!'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
- Alternative Title:
- Nation and her m-n-t-r's and Nation and her ministers
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Early state, before border and imprint statement added. For a later state with border present and the imprint "Pubd. by Milleville, Hampstead" etched in lower left, see no. 14050 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 90 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Typed extract of twenty-nine lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted opposite (on verso of preceding leaf).
- Publisher:
- John Milleville?
- Subject (Geographic):
- Saint Helena,
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821., Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, Baron, 1786-1869., Wilson, Robert, Sir, 1777-1849., Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840., Lowe, Hudson, Sir, 1769-1844., and La Valette, Antoine-Marie Chamans, comte de, 1769-1830.
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Cliffs, Shields, Liberty cap, Angels, Justice, Scales, Military officers, and Crowns
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A nation & her m-n-t-r's [graphic].
4. A phantasmagoria, or, A review of old times [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- March 9th, 1803.
- Call Number:
- 803.03.09.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A magician stands full face with uplifted sabre held over the heads of two figures from the past whom he has called up, and who stand within a magic circle. He displays them to their modern descendants, a tall stout Frenchman plainly dressed, wearing cocked hat and military boots, who stands with his arm on the shoulder of a thin, wretched, shambling, Englishman, small, ugly, and foppish, his hand thrust through an empty pocket. The magician has a beard, but features, cocked hat, consular dress, and sabre indicate Napoleon. He asks: "Are you satisfied Gentlemen?" The apparitions (left) are a grossly obese Englishman in old-fashioned dress, a cane hanging from his right wrist, and an ugly, tall, cadaverous, and foppish Frenchman holding a snuffbox. They say, respectively: "Is that my Grandson Jack? what a skeleton!!!"; "Ah mon Cousin, vat you eat de Beef & Plum Pudding!!" Their surprised successors exclaim: "Bless me! why I am a mere Stump of a man to him!!! and viable my Cousin look like de Frog & John Bull look like de Ox but Grace a Dieu times are Changed!!" Beside the magician are symbols of his art: a globe, a crocodile, a scroll, a skull. Within the circle and beside the French apparition is a frog."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Review of old times
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by T. Williamson, N. 20 Strand, London
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Subject (Topic):
- Magicians, Daggers & swords, Globes, Ethnic stereotypes, and Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A phantasmagoria, or, A review of old times [graphic]
5. Addressed by the Queen of Holland to Buonaparte, 1806?
- Creator:
- Hortense, Queen, consort of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, 1783-1837
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B935 805 folder 53 Box 5
- Collection Title:
- [Scrapbook of drawings].
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript poem, in an unidentified hand, consisiting of four numbered stanzas of four lines each. Possibly composed by Queen Hortense of Holland and addressed to Napoleon Bonaparte
- Description:
- In French., Title from manuscript note in English at bottom of sheet., Possibly from 1806, the year that Hortense became Queen of Holland and the year of death for Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this poem was found., Formerly laid in at page 196 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Housed in mylar sleeve matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Subject (Topic):
- French poetry
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Addressed by the Queen of Holland to Buonaparte, 1806?
6. 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]
7. Bonaparte à Jaffa [graphic]
- Creator:
- Lefèvre, Achille, 1798-1864, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1864]
- Call Number:
- Print01391
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Publisher's statement supplied by curator., The painting by Gros is dated 1804., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Infectious Disease.
- Publisher:
- Publié par Furne, à Paris
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Subject (Topic):
- Plague, Medicine, Military, Sick persons, Emperors, and Military personnel
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Bonaparte à Jaffa [graphic]
8. Bonaparte touchant les pestiférés [graphic]
- Creator:
- Thiebault, Jean-Baptiste, 1809-1839, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [19th century]
- Call Number:
- Print20113
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's dates and that Pellerin reprinted this series for some years after., Place of publication from item., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
- Publisher:
- De la Fabrique de Pellerin, Imprimeur-Libraire, à Epinal
- Subject (Geographic):
- Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel)
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Subject (Topic):
- Plague, Sick persons, Emperors, Military personnel, Hospitals, Drums (Musical instruments)., Flags, Mosques, and History
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Bonaparte touchant les pestiférés [graphic]
9. Boney's inquisition another specimen of his humanity on the person of Madame Toussaint. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, artist
- Published / Created:
- [25 October 1804]
- Call Number:
- 804.10.25.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Four French soldiers with hot pincers torturing "Madame Toussaint" by burning her flesh and pulling out her fingernails; Napoleon gloats on a throne to the right
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Attribution from George, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Octr. 25th 1804 by by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821. and Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803
- Subject (Topic):
- Family and Punishment & torture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Boney's inquisition another specimen of his humanity on the person of Madame Toussaint. [graphic]