A satire on Napoleon. A corpulent King George sits at his dining table before a large dinner plate with utensils decorated with his crest in gold. From a hollow upright bone pops an image of the slight Napoleon in full uniform with his arms posed to box. Above King George’s head are etched the lines: “There you little insignificant pigmy, I’ve bone’d you.”
- Printmaker: Williams, C. (Charles), active 1797-1830, printmaker.
- Title: The King’s dwarf plays Gulliver a trick [graphic].
- Published: [London] : Pubd October 18th 1803 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly [18 October 1803]
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
803.10.18.01
Acquired June 2015
The main figure in the print is not King George but Lord Kircudbright, who was very short and hunch-backed. See Gillray’s Lordly Elevation from which the image is derived.