- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [2 August 1805]
- Call Number:
- 805.08.02.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "In the manner of history painting rather than caricature. ... George III as St. George, in uniform, holds up his sword, about to give a final blow to a scaly dragon with the head of Napoleon. The long convolutions of the dragon are under the horse's feet: Napoleon's head, with a barbed fang and flames issuing from the mouth, looks up despairingly. A sword-cut has gashed his skull, and cut his crown in two. The dragon has large wings and the legs and talons of a beast of prey; it falls backwards: Britannia (left) will just escape being crushed."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Saint George and the dragon
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Artist identified as Lt.-Col. Thomas Richmond Gale Braddyll in the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on modern secondary support.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd August 2d, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > St. George and the dragon a design for an equestrian statue, from the original in Windsor-Castle / [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 January 1805]
- Call Number:
- Drawer 805.01.01.06
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Napoleon and Josephine are in the centre of an elaborate processional design. Individuals and groups are identified by eleven captions in the lower margin. The background is formed of close ranks of French soldiers, with a forest of caps, spears, pikes, and banners receding in perspective. The front row, facing the procession, are grenadiers at attention with bayoneted muskets, the letter 'N' in front of their bearskins. They are in shadow; those behind Napoleon are obscured by dense clouds of smoke from a censer; next them (l.) grenadiers blow trumpets and French horns. The procession is led, as by a drum-major, by the posturing and theatrical figure of 'His Imperial Highness Prince Louis-Buonaparte Marbœuf - High Constable of the Empire' [Marbeuf was his godfather] on the extreme right. He wears tight-fitting archaic dress, with a feathered coronet, a cloak trailing from one shoulder, buskins, and sabre. He carries a tall staff surmounted by a fleur-de-lis. Next come 'The Three Imperial Graces, viz. Thier Imp. Highs Princess Borghese [Pauline], Princess. Louis (cher amie of ye Emperor) & Princess Joseph-Bonaparte' [Hortense and Julie] - three slim young women, very scantily draped, scatter roses. All wear feathered coronets with long snaky curls on their shoulders; they resemble the sisters of Napoleon in BMSat 10072. The ground (l. to r.) is strewn with the flowers they have scattered. Next walks 'Madame Talleyrand (ci devant Mrs Halhead the Prophetess conducting the Heir Apparent in ye Path of Glory'. A grossly fat woman leads by the hand the little Napoleon-Charles, son of Louis (b. 10 Oct. 1802). The child goose-steps arrogantly, holding out a sceptre in his left hand. He is dressed much like his father, but with the addition of a ribbon and star. Mme Talleyrand wears a feathered coronet and an enormous nosegay; she holds a fan on which is a goat. This, and her patched face, indicate her dissolute past. Slightly behind her, and on her right., hobbles 'Talleyrand-Perigord. - Prime Minister & King at Arms bearing the Emperor's Geneology.' He is burlesqued, with a 'cheese-cutter' shin, and a r. foot supported by blocks under the shoe. On his left. shoulder he carries a framed genealogical tree, and hung to his person are crests and symbols in rectangular frames. Napoleon's family tree issues from 'Buone Butcher' and, passing through 'Buone Cuckold', terminates in 'Napoleone Emperor', which is crowned. The collateral branches are illegible, but one is followed by 'Hang'd'. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched above image. and 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 23.7 x 77 cm, on sheet 26.3 x 79.3 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- France.
- Subject (Name):
- Bonaparte, Paolina, 1780-1825, Hortense, Queen, consort of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, 1783-1837, María-Julia, Queen, consort of Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, 1771-1845, Talleyrand-Périgord, Catherine Noël, princesse de Bénévent, 1762-1835, Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838, Pius VII, Pope, 1742-1823, Fesch, Joseph, 1763-1839, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Josephine, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1763-1814, Berthier, Louis-Alexandre, 1753-1815, Augereau, Pierre, 1757-1816, and Fouché, Joseph, duc d'Otrante, 1759-1820
- Subject (Topic):
- Coronations
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The grand coronation procession of Napoleone the 1st, Emperor of France, from the church of Notre-Dame, Decr. 2d, 1804 [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [26 February 1805]
- Call Number:
- 805.02.26.05+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Pitt (l.) and Napoleon face each other at a round dinner-table on which, in a dish, is a terrestrial globe in the form of a steaming plum-pudding. Pitt, with a carving knife, and three-pronged fork (like a trident) planted in the '[Atlantic] Ocean', cuts a deep gash to the west of 'Britain', extending from the Pole to the Equator; he obtains the 'West Indies'. Napoleon, using his sword and a two-pronged fork which straddles 'Hanover', is cutting from Europe a large fragment including 'France', 'Holland', 'Spain', 'Swiss[erland]', 'Italy', 'Mediterranean', but missing 'Sweden' and 'Russia'. Before each is an empty (gold) plate, on Pitt's the Royal Arms, on Napoleon's an imperial crown. On the back of Pitt's chair is a crowned British Lion on its hind-legs, holding up a Union flag; a fierce imperial eagle clutching a bonnet rouge decorates that of Napoleon. Pitt, very tall and thin, wears a cocked hat and regimentals and long pigtail (cf. BMSat 10113, &c). Napoleon, sturdier and much shorter, has almost to rise from his chair to reach the pudding. He wears military dress, a huge plumed bicorne resting on his shoulders. Pitt looks warily at Napoleon who stares fiercely at the pudding. The figures are seven-eighths length. Below the title: '- "the great Globe itself, and all which it inherit" [sic, 'Tempest', iv. i], is too small to satisfy such insatiable appetites - Vide Mr W-d-m's [Windham's] eccentricities, in ye Political Register.' (For Windham as a contributor to Cobbett's paper see BMSat 10414)."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- State epicures taking un petit souper
- Description:
- Title etched in upper right corner of image., Temporary local subject terms: Globe -- Dining table -- Trident -- Lion of England - Carving knives., and Unidentified stamp on verso.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 26th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The plumb-pudding in danger, or, State epicures taking un petit souper