"The comet has the profile head of Napoleon wearng a plumed bicorne; it rushes up from the left. towards the sun, the profile head of George III, much irradiated. John Bull, a carbuncled 'cit', stoops low to look through a telescope on a tripod pointing towards the comet. Napoleon looks up at the King, who gazes fixedly above his head. He has ascended from a small piece of land rising from the narrow Channel separating it from John's wider fragment. Up this a frog clambers. On the open sea ships are strung out along the horizon. John says: "Aye - Aye - Master Comet - you may attempt your Periheliums - or your Devil heliums for what I care but take the word of an Old Man you'll never reach the Sun depend upon it"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of variant state
Alternative Title:
John Bull making observations on the comet
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '274' in upper right corner., and Variant state. Cf. no. 10769, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8 for description of the plate with different series number.
Publisher:
Printed for Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Coastlines, Comets, Ships, Sun, and Telescopes
"John Bull, as a gigantic sailor, clasping both sides of a small boat, peers like an angry ogre at three French ships off the French coast, indicated by a cliff. The ships are in a row, their bows cut off by the left margin. Napoleon stands on the poop of the nearest, pointing at John. He says: "mercy on us what a monster he'll swallow all my ships at a mouth-ful, I hope he dont see me." John roars: "Upon my word - a very Pretty light Breakfast."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull peeping into Brest
Description:
Title from item. and Artist and publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Roberts, Middle Row
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Sailors, and Ships
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"John Bull sits holding against his knee Napoleon, an elongated puppet, in the position of a bass viol (viol da gamba). His left hand holds the elongated neck; in his right. is a sword, which he draws like a bow across his instrument's body. Napoleon is in profile, facing John, his mouth wide open, as if throttled; he holds a sword limply in his left hand. He wears military uniform with large feathered bicorne. John's hat and wig lie on the ground; he is a prosperous 'cit' in old-fashioned dress, and looks towards the spectator with a satisfied smile. 'Britons strike home' is engraved above his head."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull playing on the base villain
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Reissue by Tegg of a plate first published by Piercy Roberts in 1803; Roberts's imprint statement has been crossed out but is partially legible in lower left corner of design. See British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "259" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges., and Leaf 84 in volume 4.
Publisher:
Pubd. Janry. 1, 1807, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
Title etched below image., Printmaker and artist from British Museum catalogue., Cf. No. 10766, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8 for description lacking imprint statement., and Temporary local subject terms: Grog -- Cutlass -- Swords -- Guns -- Pistol -- Reference to Holland -- Dutchmen -- Reference to Italy -- Reference to Denmark -- Reference to America -- Reference to Westphalia -- Tobacco box -- Pipe -- Turk.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt., 1807 by Walker, No. 7 Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Beauharnais, Eugène de, 1781-1824
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Insects, Sailors, British, and Weapons
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Jack Frost, bestriding a bear (left), hurls snowballs at Napoleon, who tries to escape, trudging through snow with skates attached to his spurred and tasselled Hessians. Two strike his back, another has knocked off his plumed bicorne. He holds his nose, looking over his shoulder to say: "By gar--Monsieur Frost this is a much colder Reception than I expected I never experianced such a pelting before--I find I must take care of my Nose as well as my Toes--Pray forgive me this time and I swear by --St Dennis never to enter your -- dominion again." From the angry bear's nostrils issues 'a Northern blast' which strikes Napoleon's posterior; its hindquarters are inscribed 'Northern Bear Ham'. Jack Frost is naked, except for large skates, emaciated, and old, with a wide gap-toothed mouth, beard, and huge moustache. From each glaring eyeball slants a searchlight inscribed 'Northern lights'. In each bony hand is a big 'Snow ball', and another flies through the air. He says: "What--Master Boney--have I caught You at last lie--teach you Russian fare--take that and that as a relish and digest it." In the middle distance the 'Empr Alexander' stands with legs astride on a mound of snow pointing derisively at Napoleon. He wears cocked hat, cloak, and fur-topped boots with huge curving toes, like those of three 'Cossacks' who watch Napoleon from a mound on the extreme left. They have spears but are smoking and one is seated; they grin, content to wait their time. Behind Alexander the spears and fur-capped heads of an army project above the snow, in front of the walls of 'Petersbourgh'. On the extreme right and nearer the foreground are French soldiers crouching in the snow and warming their hands at a fire of sticks inscribed 'Moscow'; fragments of gutted buildings are behind them. The sky is covered with slanting lines indicating a blizzard blowing against Napoleon and the French."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Jack Frost attacking Boney in Russia
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Elmes in the British Museum online catalogue., Later state; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Publised [sic] Novemr. 7th, 1812, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, Napoleon Collection, UW reference no.: E15., Plate numbered "179" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., "Price one shilling coloured.", Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 32 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825
"John Bull (right), a fat citizen wearing spectacles, holds aside a curtain, revealing Napoleon and Joséphine enthroned, side by side. He stands in profile to the left, a large pistol under his left arm, his left hand in his coat-pocket. He says: "Boney - Boney, that wont do - You must not Play my King & Queen." Napoleon, wearing a huge bicorne, a drawn sabre in his right hand, frowns at John. Joséphine wears a crown, holds sceptre and orb and looks complacently to the left. Both sit with right foot planted regally on a stool, and left leg arrogantly thrust forward."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Johnny Bull on the lookout and Bonaparte detected drilling his rib at the play of King & Queen of England
Description:
Title etched below image., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Plate numbered "314" in lower left corner., and On verso in brown ink is the collector's stamp of Nick Knowles: A pair of crossed skis.
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 12, 1803, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Josephine, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1763-1814
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805, Draperies, Handguns, Thrones, Daggers & swords, Crowns, Scepters, and Stools
A Spanish version of Gillray’s 1803 satire ‘Maniac Raving’s-or-Little Boney in a Strong Fit’, the texts in the plate adapted to the Spanish relationship with France during the Peninsular War - after the invading French armies were defeated by the Spanish in Andalusia at the Battle of Bailen ‘Napoleon is frantic with rage at the news from Spain... He blames Godoy (whom he had made ‘Prince of the Algarves’) for deceiving him, apostrophizes Talleyrand, reproaches Dupont, and his second-in-command Vedel, for the capitulation of Baylen... his deceptions are discovered by the ‘perfidious Englishman’, probably Sir Hew Dalrymple, the Governor of Gibraltar’ (British Museum catalogue).
Description:
Title from text above image., Text below image begins: Noticioso Napoleon de qe sus exercitos de España ..., and Copy of a print by James Gillray; for the original, see no. 9998 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8. For a more simplified Spanish copy, see no. 11058.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Gillray, James, 1756-1815
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign public opinion, Spanish, Political satire, Spanish, Anger, Globes, Chairs, Documents, Fire, and Smoke
Title from caption etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Imprint from first state scored through: London : Pubd. by Roberts Middle Row, Holborn, [June 1803?]., Publication year from Tegg's first printing scored through: 1806?, Temporary local subject terms: Holland -- Spain -- Hanover -- Dutchmen -- Spainards -- Military: German Soldier -- Broken Pipe -- John Bull., and Mss. note in contemporary hand added to upper margin of print: 246.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The small, nimble Napoleon plays leap-frog with the larger and more solid personifications of Holland, Spain, and Hanover, who stand with bent backs and hands on knees. Having leapt over the bent backs of a fat Dutchman (left) and then a Spanish don in feathered hat, ruff, and cloak, he bestrides the shoulders of Hanover, a German soldier wearing a cocked hat and jack-boots. The Dutchman, his hat and broken pipe on the ground, says with a scowl: "He has left the Swiss and Italian a Mile behind - and as for me he ha s Knock'd my hat off and broken my pipe - pretty encouragement this to play at Leap Frog". The Spaniard: "By St Iago - my back is almost broken." The Hanoverian: "Why did I submit to this." Napoleon, wearing his enorrnous cocked hat with tricolour plume, says: "Keep down your head Master Hanoverian my next leap shall be over John Bull." John (right), a fat citizen wearing a cocked hat, faces him with a clenched fist, saying, "I'll be d-----d if you do Master Corsican"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Leapfrog
Description:
Title etched below image., Later reissue by Tegg of a plate first published ca. June 1803 by Piercy Roberts. Roberts's imprint, "London, Pubd. by Roberts, Middle Row, Holborn," is scored through but mostly legible in lower left; Tegg's imprint has been added to the right of Roberts's crossed-out imprint. See British Museum catalogue., Year of publication has been burnished from end of imprint statement. Date of publication based on earlier reissue with the crossed-out (but legible) year "1807" at end of imprint. See British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "285" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 60 in volume 4.