"Napoleon plays a double bass, stooping forward, and looking with an agonized expression towards a music-book on a high stand, the pages headed 'Conquest of / Spain & Portugal' and ending in 'Volti Su . . . .' He says: "Plague take it! I never met with so difficult a 'passage' before - But if I can once get over the 'Flats', we shall do pretty well for you see the 'Key' will then change to B sharp." Behind Napoleon and on the right stand the Russian bear on his hind legs, muzzled, and blowing a French horn. He says: "Why that is 'Natural' enough brother Boney though this 'French horn' of yours seems rather out of Order I think." Napoleon, who wears a large bicorne, stands on a 'Map of the Continent' showing 'Spain' and 'Portugal'. Behind him are a drum and a roll of 'Boney's Orations Vol. 10th'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Boney playing base on the Continent and Boney playing bass on the Continent
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann, no. 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
"The friends of 'Nap' are Death, a skeleton, the Devil, a monster with webbed wings and barbed tail, and Joseph Bonaparte. They sit drinking at an oblong table, Death at the head (right), facing Joseph, and with Napoleon on his right, the Devil on his left seated on a stool. Napoleon stands in profile to the left, giving a toast, "Come Gentlemen - here is Success to Plunder and Massacre." Death and the Devil prepare to drink, but Joseph sits glumly, his elbows on the table, supporting his chin on his fists. On the table are decanters, one labelled 'Champagne'. Behind Napoleon's head hangs a 'View of Malmaison' with tiny foreground figures: the Devil and Napoleon clasping hands."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Four columns of verse etched below title; the leftmost column has the heading "I. Nap" and begins: These Spaniards are terrible rogues, they will not submit to my fetters ..., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann, no. 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Joseph Bonaparte,--King of Spain,--1768-1844--Caricatures and cartoons., and Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
"Napoleon, 'Corsican Tiger', with the body of a tiger, and wearing his feathered bicorne, puts his fore-paws on a bunch of four yelping and prostrate dogs, one with a collar inscribed 'Royal Greyhound' (the collars of the others being hidden). He turns his head in profile to the left. to glare savagely at a pack of 'Patriotic Greyhounds'. The two foremost bark fiercely at him, their heads close to his, others are streaking down a steep hill (l.) towards him. Narrow water divides the land on which Napoleon stands from three other projecting pieces of land on the r. In the foreground a 'Dutch Frog' sits smoking a pipe and watching the conflict, saying, "It will be my turn to have a slap at him next." On a cliff behind the frog 'Iohn Bull', a 'cit', stands aiming his musket at the tiger; he says: "There was a little Man, And he had a little gun, And his Bullets were made of lead, D------n me but we'll manage him amongst us. "On a more distant plain a bear on its hind legs faces an eagle with three crowned heads: they are 'Russian Bear & Austrian Eagle', and are linked together by a heavy chain attached to collars on the bear and eagle. The eagle says: "Now Brother Bruin is the time to break our chains"."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann, no. 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character)--Caricatures and cartoons.