"The head of Napoleon in profile to the left, is held high on a pitchfork by John Bull, whose head and shoulders only are visible. He is a volunteer, an armed yokel, his loose hair and check neckcloth going ill with his military coat and epaulets. He wears a three-cornered hat turned up with a favour inscribed 'Britons strike home', and with a bunch of oak-leaves. A background of similar heads, fat and smiling, recedes in perspective : a crowd holding up their bayoneted muskets and looking up at the bleeding head; some wave their hats. They have a Union flag. John says: "Ha! my little Boney! - what do'st think of Johnny Bull now? - Plunder Old England! hayy? - ravish all our Wives & Daughters! hay - O Lord help that silly Head! - to think that Johnny Bull would ever suffer those Lanthorn Jaws to become King of Old England's Roast-Beef & Plumpudding!" Above the design: 'This is to give information for the benifit of all Jacobin Adventurers, that Policies are now open'd at Lloyd's - where the depositer of One Guinea is entitled a Hundred if the Corsican Cut-throat is Alive 48 Hours after Landing on the British Coast.'"--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Buonaparte forty-eight hours after landing!
Description:
Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character)--Caricatures and cartoons.
"Addington (right) bleeds John Bull, who sits on a commode, exhausted and faint, supported by Hawkesbury. Addington, very erect, wears his gown, and says: "Courage John Bull - Courage!!!" Hawkesbury, drooping and melancholy, repeats "Courage Johnny." John's arm is tightly bound above the incision by a tricolour bandage, a tricolour ribbon is tied round his tousled head. A diminutive Napoleon (right) with a martial stride and drawn sabre holds out his cocked hat to catch the blood that spurts from John's arm; this is inscribed: 'West Indies', 'Cape of Good Hope', 'Malta' [in large letters, see BMSat 9997, &c], 'Ceylon'. A little boy, standing behind Addington and clutching his gown, holds out his hat, inscribed 'Clerk [of the] Pells', to catch a stream of blood inscribed '£3,000 Pr Annum'; he echoes 'Courage'. On the left stand Fox and Sheridan proffering bowls of 'Warm Water'; both say "Courage". Fox has swollen legs and holds a tea-kettle, his expression is that of calculating reserve; Sheridan bends forward with eager greed. John is a countryman wearing wrinkled gaiters. His commode is inscribed 'Reservoir for the Clyster-pipe Family' [the Addingtons]. Beside him lie his (damaged) hat and stick, with a torn paper: 'Rule Britannia an old Song'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Text following title: A hint from Gil Blas. and Title etched in upper left corner of image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson,--Earl of,--1770-1828--Caricatures and cartoons., Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,--1751-1816--Caricatures and cartoons., and Sidmouth, Henry Addington,--Viscount,--1757-1844--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character)--Caricatures and cartoons.
"John Bull stands squarely, holding a thick stick with a carved head representing a bull-dog, and a frothing tankard ornamented with a crown. He turns his eyes with appraising disparagement towards Sheridan (r.), a ragged bill-sticker, who slouches forward with conspiratorial impressiveness. The latter, r. hand raised warningly, says: "The Corsican Thief has slip'd from his Quarters \ And coming to Ravish your Wives & your Daughters". In his left hand is his bill-sticker's pole, under his arms are papers: 'Loyal Bills distributed pro bono publico', 'Sherry Andrew's Address'. From inside his coat project 'Play Bills'. A bonnet rouge with tricolour cockade, shaped like a fool's cap, hangs from his coat pocket. John answers: "Let him come and be D------n'd! - what cares Johnny Bull! \ With my Crabstick assured I will fracture his Scull! \ Or I'll squeese the vile reptile 'twixt my Finger & Thumb, \ Make him stink like a Bug, if he dares to presume!" John wears a laced cocked hat and powdered wig. His dress is old-fashioned, with spotted handkerchief round his neck, unbuttoned waistcoat, and the wrinkled gaiters of the farmer. From his waistcoat pockets hang papers: 'List of the Volunteer Corps'; 'God save the King'; 'Navy List.'; 'Rule Britannia'. Behind him is a Gothic chair, resembling the Coronation Chair, and having the Royal Arms on the back. This shows that, despite his dress, John is George III. [This is asserted in 'London und Paris', xi. 169.] Beside it (r.) is one end of a heavy, ancient table on which lies a 'London Gazette' with columns headed 'List of Captures' and 'Imports'. Across it lies John's long pipe. On the wall is a broadside, 'The Roast Beef of Old England', headed by a print of an ox regarding a frog. It begins: 'As once on a time a Young Frog \ Beheld a large Ox that . . . \ . . . O the Roast Beef of Old . . . [other words illegible].' Behind Sheridan is the corner of a brick wall on which bills are pasted: 'Heroes . . .'; 'Live Free or Die Slaves'; 'to devour the Women & Children'; 'Consular Monster'; 'Englishmen'; 'First Consul Rascal Scoundrel Rogue'; 'Invasion of Great Britain Pillage Destruction Rapes Murder'; 'Ravishment Conquer or . . .'; 'Corsican Cruelties 4000 Turks murderd after laying down their Arms at Jaffa [see BMSat 10062] - 500 Sick Soldiers poisond in Egypt [see BMSat 10063] O Lord! - O Lord!'; 'Address to Britons blood Murder Cut Throat Butcher'; 'Devil. . .'; 'Little Boney's delight Sword Fire Destruction'. ..."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Four stanzas of verse on lower plate begins: John Bull as he sat in his old easy chair, an alarmist came to him & said in his ear ..., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Smaller plate consists entirely of etched text and is printed below the plate with image., and Title etched in top part of image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97861435, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,--1751-1816--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character)--Caricatures and cartoons.
"John Bull is a sailor, stripped to the waist, his trousers turned up, who stands arms akimbo in the English Channel. He looks at Napoleon, whose head peers over the top of a triple fortification on the French coast, bristling with guns, at the base of which small gun-boats are drawn up, on a low cliff rising from the sea. Napoleon, wearing his feathered cocked hat, haggard and alarmed, says: "I'm a com'ing! I'm a' coming!!!" Beside him flies a tricolour flag inscribed 'Vive la Liberta.' John, brawny and contemptuous, asks: "You're a' coming"? - You be d-n'd! [see BMSat 10110] If you mean to invade us - why make such a rout? - I say, Little Boney - why don't you come out? - yes, d-n ye, why don't you come out?" The words of both float upwards in large labels. On a cliff behind John is a fort flying the Union flag."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Printmaker's signature present in lower right corner of design but mostly obscured by etched lines. and Title etched in top part of image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character)--Caricatures and cartoons.