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- Published / Created:
- the 25th of October 1783. and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 28. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A Frenchman, in profile to the left, seated on a globe. To the globe are fixed vertical rods, the upper ends of which terminate in four smaller globes which are thus supported above the principal one; chains link these four globes to a fifth globe above, and slightly longer than, the other four. On this fifth globe is a child from whose bare posteriors six balls are being projected. On two (right) of the four globes are the heads of an ass, and of a man wearing a fool's cap; to their jaws are attached reins which are held by the Frenchman whose right hand is extended in the attitude of an orator. On the third globe is a monkey's head, which more resembles that of a sheep; the fourth globe is blank. The intention of the satire is explained by the inscription beneath the title, 'A F------t ------An Ass------ A Fool------A Monkey------A Nothing'. On the large globe on which the aeronaut sits is a cannon, its muzzle projecting upwards and to the left beyond the contour of the globe. In the centre is the winged head of a bald and bearded man in profile to the left. Below is the stern and part of the side of a man-of-war, with cannon projecting from port-holes."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Montgolsier, a first rate of the French aerial navy and Montgolfier, a first rate of the French aerial navy
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 28 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Pub by E. Dachery, N. 11 St. James's Street [i.e. Field & Tuer] and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Name):
- Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6333 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
- Subject (Topic):
- Balloons (Aircraft) and Cannons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Montgolsier [sic], a first rate of the French aerial navy [graphic]