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Long faces at Bayonne

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“Napoleon (left) and Joseph sit side by side on low seats or stools, both with a hand on each knee. They have large, elongated heads broadly caricatured (as in British Museum Satires No. 10604, &c.) and look sideways at each other with drawn-down mouths and wrinkled foreheads. Napoleon is in uniform, wearing a feathered bicorne; Joseph wears a crown with Spanish dress, ermine-trimmed robe, and the order of the Golden Fleece. His seat is, very inconspicuously, a commode. At his feet is a sceptre with a scroll inscribed ‘Servata Fides Cineri’. Napoleon says: “A pretty piece of Business we have made of it Brother Joe.” Joseph: “I always told you Nap, what would come of makeing too free with the Spaniards.””–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker.
  • Title: Long faces at Bayonne, or, King Nap and King Joe in the dumps [graphic].
  • Publication: [London] : Pubd. Augt. 1808 by Walker, No. 7 Cornhill, [August 1808]

Catalog Record

808.08.00.01+

Acquired February 2024

The coffin expedition, or, Boney’s invincible armada half seas over

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“Gunboats in the form of coffins are foundering or about to founder. Each has a single cannon in the bows, and a mast with a triangular sail whose corner is held in the teeth of the skull which surmounts the mast. The crews all wear shrouds and bonnets rouges; on the skulls also are bonnets rouges. Some of the men are screaming in the water, where a floating skull holds the end of a sail in its teeth, looking round fiercely at one of the drowning men. Others are still in the coffin-gunboats, holding muskets or making gestures of despair. One says: “Oh de Corsican Bougre, was make dese Gun Boats on purpose for our Funeral.” In the background are two British men of war. Two tiny sailors say: “I say Messmate if we dont bear up quickly there will be nothing left for us to do”, and, “Rigt [sic] Tom, & I take them there things at the mast head to be Boney’s Crest, a Skull without Brains.” A satire on the manifest impracticability of an invasion (see British Museum Satires No. 10008) by gunboats without the command of the sea, cf. British Museum Satires Nos. 9995, &c, 10125, 10223, 10231, 10260, 10277.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker.
  • Title: The coffin expedition, or, Boney’s invincible armada half seas over [graphic].
  • Publication: [London] : Pubd. Jany. 6th, 1804, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly, [6 January 1804]

Catalog Record

804.01.06.01

Acquired November 2023

The governor of Europe stoped [sic] in his career…

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“Napoleon, trampling over the map of Europe from ‘Germany’ to the ‘British Channel’, drops his sabre and raises his left leg, leaving behind the front part of his left foot, planted on the coast and sea between ‘Holland’ and ‘France’. The foot has been slashed off by a little John Bull, who stands on the ocean pointing down at the two islands of ‘Great Britain’ and ‘Ireland’, towards which the amputated foot points. John holds a dripping sword, and looks up at the angry giant, saying, “I ax pardon Master Boney, but as we says Paws off Pompey, we keep this little Spot to Ourselves You must not Dance here Master Boney.” Blood gushes from both sides of the amputation. Bonaparte, who wears his huge cocked hat, shouts, with gestures of pain and anger: “Ah you tam John Bull!! You have spoil my Dance, !! You have ruin all my Projets!!” ‘Switzerland’ and ‘Italy’ are also marked on the map in close proximity to France.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker.
  • Title: The governor of Europe stoped [sic] in his career, or, Little B-n to [sic] much for great B-te [graphic].
  • Publication: [London] : Pubd. April 16, 1803, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly, [16 April 1803]

Catalog Record

803.04.16.01

Acquired November 2023

The serenade

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“A large man accompanied by a violinist serenades an elderly lady who leans out of her window.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker.
  • Title: The serenade [graphic] / I.C.
  • Publication: [London] : Published Octr. 11, 1802, by T. Williamson, N. 20 Strand, [11 October 1802]

Catalog record

802.10.11.01

Acquired September 2023

Adulation, or, A coronation oration by the Jack Pudding of the nation

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“George IV, crowned, and with orb and sceptre, sits on a coronation chair in Westminster Abbey (right). The Archbishop, well characterized, stands beside him, holding his mitre, his right hand on the chair. On the King’s right hand stands Londonderry (Castlereagh) in Garter robes; other peers stand behind him. All watch the antics of Canning, dressed in parti-coloured clothes as a merry-andrew or buffoon. He kneels on the dais at the King’s feet, arms flung wide; at his feet is a high-crowned hat with a peacock’s feather; on the back of his tunic are the letters M P and P C. He declaims: The delight of the Nation at the Celebration of your Majesty’s Coronation, the Exultation throughout the Creation exceeds all Imagination. the Expectation to which the Anticipation of this Consumation has given occasion is beyond Contemplation; we offer the Oblation of our Congratulation, without Hesitation or Trepidation; no Tribulation can effect a Cessation of the Sensation which pervades every Station; no Situation in whatever Deprivation will utter an Execration for the Association are in Preparation to effect an Extirpation of all Defamation. We hope the Expectation of a Decollation will produce Annihilation of all Deviation from strict Regulation; we submit to Subjugation without Hesitation, and we offer our Oration with gratefull Adoration upon this Jollification. The King composedly touches (or kicks) Canning’s chin with his toe. Peeresses stand in a gallery across the north transept, holding their coronets. Above them is a second and more crowded gallery.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker.
  • Title: Adulation, or, A coronation oration by the Jack Pudding of the nation [graphic].
  • Publication: [London] : Pubd. July 1821 by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly, [July 1821]

Catalog Record

821.07.00.04

Acquired September 2023

Money hunting

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“A fat squat and ugly woman sits on a sofa next a tall dandified officer (right) who makes his address, his hand on his breast. She turns to him complacently, her feet awkwardly resting on a stool. Their two dogs face each other, each with shape and manner corresponding with its owner. Two appropriate pictures are on the wall: Bank of England (left) and Seige of Acre (right).”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker.
  • Title: [Money hunting] [graphic] / deigned [sic] by an amature ; etched by G. Ck.
  • Publication: [London] : Pub. Jany. 10, 1823 by G. Humphrey 27 St. James’s Stt, [10 January 1823]

Catalog Record

823.01.10.02

Acquired September 2023

The talle-ho’ parson standing at bay

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A clergyman in bands and gown, his hat on the pavement, squares up to a watchman holding a lantern and stick, his fists raised. He has evidently knocked out one watchman already, who lies on the ground, wig dislodged and still touching his lantern, while a third approaches from the left. Possibly from a series featuring a pugnacious parson’s brushes with the law.

  • Title: The talle-ho’ parson standing at bay [graphic].
  • Publication: [London] : Pubd. by Darly, 39 Strand, Sepr. 14, 1778.

Catalog Record

778.09.14.01+

Acquired September 2023

Relieving the distress’d travellers

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A fashionable couple walk on a country road past a cottage. A woman carrying a small child and carrying bags on her back approach them from behind and one of her small children on foot doffs his cap and reaches out his hand for alms. Another small child, also cap in hand, hangs onto his mother’s skirts. Also on the road, heading in the opposite direction is a wagon filled with recruits and soldiers and one woman holding onto a large trunk.

  • Title: Relieving the distress’d travellers [graphic].
  • Publication: [London] : Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St Paul’s Church Yard, London, [approximately 1812]
  • Manufacture: [printed 1812]

Catalog Record

812.00.00.130

Acquired September 2023

A French emigrant cook begging for a slice of English beef

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A scene in a kitchen showing a French male cook on his knees beside a cross-looking female cook holding a spatula. In the background, a roaring fire in the hearth with a slab of beef on a spit.

  • Printmaker: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker, artist.
  • Title: A French emigrant cook begging for a slice of English beef [graphic].
  • Publication: [London] : Publish’d 1st March 1794 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London, [1 March 1794]

Catalog Record

794.03.01.04

Acquired September 2023

A general view of the city & castle of Edinburgh

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View from a elevated vantage point looking across the city towards Fife, with figures in the foreground.

  • Printmaker: Morris, Thomas, approximately 1750-approximately 1811, printmaker.
  • Title: A general view of the city & castle of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland [graphic] / Morris sculp.
  • Publication: London : Published by Alexr. Hogg at the Kings Arms, No. 16 Paternoster Row, [1785?]

Catalog Record

Topos Sco424 no. 1+

Acquired September 2023