'verliehrt auf der Heimreise von der Leipziger Messe alles' (reproduced Broadley, ii. 117). Napoleon runs in profile to the left, holding in both hands a pole like that of a running footman, but topped by the head of the sceptre of Charlemagne (an emblem of the Empire) inscribed 'Carolus Magnus'. His head and uniform evidently derive from Dähling's engraving of Napoleon in the uniform of the Colonel of the Chasseurs of the Guard (reproduced, Dayot, 'Napoléon', p. 205), on which British Museum Satires No. 12177 is based, but on his back is the hairy knapsack of a private (as in British Museum Satires No. 12308). Its contents fly out as he runs. On the ground are two prints of French soldiers at attention, 'Alte Garde' and 'Junge Garde'; maps fall to the ground: 'Poland', 'Rhein Bund', 'Hanstat [sic] Departement', 'Sewitszerla[nd]' [sic], 'Holland', 'Italy', which has hardly left the knapsack; two rolled maps are about to fall: 'Brabant' and 'Bheisufer' [i.e. Rheinufer or Bouches du Rhin]. He runs diagonally towards a broad river, the Rhine; on the farther side are the buildings of 'Maynz', reflected in the water. Just before him runs a hare. The original, including inscriptions, is closely followed, but the hare (cf. British Museum Satires No. 12564) has been added and a bush removed."--British Museum online catalogue. and "A copy, probably much enlarged, of a German print, der rheinische courier
Alternative Title:
Head runner of runaways, from Leipzig fair
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann, 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.
"Napoleon stands in profile to the right on a low platform at a desk on which he leans, his auctioneer's hammer in his right hand, the left hand extended. The Allies are crowded together on or beside a bench facing a second bench on which are four elderly French officers. One of these, rather younger than the others, identified in Van Stolk as Marshal Berthier, stands holding up a crown above his head. A Spanish don stands extending both arms towards the crown with a gesture of dismissal; he says: "That a CROWN! It's not worth half a Crown." Napoleon, who wears uniform and a cocked hat and is scarcely caricatured, says: "What no bidding for the Crown of Spain Then take the other crowns and lump them into one lot." The two most prominent figures on the front bench, and the nearest to the rostrum, are a fat Dutchman smoking a pipe and turning his head in profile, and a rough British sailor who sprawls behind him, one hand protectingly on the Dutchman's shoulder, the other pointing to Napoleon. John's back is to the other Allies; the obese King of Würtemberg, with a conspicuous flowered waistcoat, cf. British Museum Satires No. 12114, is immediately behind him. The others are a Cossack and a Prussian hussar with the Spanish don. The French officers watch with rage or intense melancholy. Stepping on to Napoleon's little platform is Marie Louise (left), holding in her arms the little King of Rome with the face of a monkey, wearing military uniform with a cocked hat. He says: "I suppose daddy will put us up for sale." The Empress is one of Rowlandson's buxom English girls. Napoleon leans on a large document which is on his desk: 'Speedily will be sold the Thirteen Cantons of Switserland.' In the foreground (left) in front of the rostrum the goods for sale are piled. There are three crowns and a papal tiara, a sheaf of flag-staffs, with a paper: 'Lot 2 Twenty flags the property of the Empress' [see British Museum Satires No. 12111, See.]; a sheaf of Eagles with a paper: 'Lot of Useless Eagles', with other papers inscribed respectively: 'Kingdom of Bavaria', 'Kingdom of Prussia', 'Saxony' [see British Museum Satires No. 12096], 'Kingdom of Westphalia' [see British Museum Satires No. 12549], 'United Provinces'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Boney selling stolen goods
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Berthier, Louis-Alexandre,--1753-1815--Caricatures and cartoons., Bonaparte, François-Charles-Joseph,--Herzog von Reichstadt,--1811-1832--Caricatures and cartoons., Frederick--I,--King of Württemberg,--1754-1816--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Marie Louise,--Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French,--1791-1847--Caricatures and cartoons., and Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
"Five elderly, old-fashioned doctors stand in consultation in a row behind Napoleon (r.), who vomits, saying, "My Dear Doctors! those sacre Anglois have play'd the Devil vun [?] my constitution pray tell me what is the matter with me, I felt the first symptoms when I told Genl Macke I wanted ships, collonies & commerce - Oh! dear - Oh dear! I shall want more ships now; this is a cursed sensation - O I am very qualmish." He drops an 'Extraordinary Gazette 19 Sail of the Line taken by Ld Nelson'. He stands in profile to the right. with flexed knees. The doctor behind him pulls down his breeches and peers towards him; he says: "Begar me have found it out - your heart be in your breeches." The next doctor exclaims: "A desperate case"; the third says: "I recommend bleeding". The two on the extreme left. consult together; one says: "Irrecoverable". They wear tie-wigs with old-fashioned dress: Napoleon wears uniform with large bicorne hat and boots."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Nap Buonaparte in a fever on receiving the extraordinary gazette of Nelson's victory over the combined fleets and Nap Buonaparte in a fever on recieving the extraordinary gazette of Nelson's victory over the combined fleets
Description:
Title etched below image.
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.
"Heading to a printed broadside. A copy of British Museum Satires No. 12177, with the same inscriptions, except that 'f' is omitted after the rivers and 'Veichsel' (Vistula) is spelt 'Weichsel R. Ehrefort' ['loss of honour' punningly combined with Erfurt, scene of Napoleon's triumph in 1808, and his headquarters before Leipzig; cf. British Museum Satires No. 12248] is on a red ribbon. The web is larger in proportion to the coat, the spider much larger in proportion to the web. On the collar are waves of the sea, with an inconspicuous ship. On the cuff is 'R' (for Regent), round the wrist 'Honi Soit', on the fingers are the letters 'A', 'R', 'P', 'S', 'E' (for the Allies)."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Copy of a print by Johann Michael Voltz. See British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides, and sheet trimmed on bottom edge with loss of printer's statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Publisher's and printer's statements in letterpress at bottom of sheet; additional imprint statement "Pubd. by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand, London" is etched below image., Title from letterpress text below image., and Twenty lines of letterpress text below title: The first, and last, by the wrath of Heaven Emperor of the Jacobins, Protector of the Confederation of Rogues, Mediator of the Hellish League ...
Publisher:
R. Ackermann, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harrison & Leigh, publisher., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons., and Voltz, Johann Michael, 1784-1858, artist.
"A travesty of a French print, an apotheosis of Napoleon by Tardieu after Dabos. As in the original, the title is on a piece of fringed drapery between two naturalistic eagles; these flank an arc of the globe, its northern summit, more flattened than in the original. On the globe is a map, with 'France' in the centre, flanked (left) by 'Golfe of Venice' and 'Italy' and (right) 'Espagne' and 'Pologne'. On the north are 'Amsterdam Pres Unie' [sic] and 'Whestphalia'. From the summit of the globe rises a pole supporting the face of Napoleon, copied from the original but with the addition of a melancholy frown and transformed by the pole into a decollated head. It is inscribed 'Polar Star' and enclosed in a circle of writhing serpents which takes the place of a laurel wreath. Rays extend from the circle over the greater part of the design, with inscriptions radiating outwards: 'Assisting in the Assassination of Louis the 16th my Benefactor'; 'Murdering the Citizens of Paris under Roberspierre' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 9534]; 'Murdering the Citizens of Toulon' [see British Museum Satires No. 10095]; 'Insulting the Pope robbing and plundering the Churches &c &c.' [see British Museum Satires No. 8997]; 'Poisoning my own Sick Soldiers in the Hospital at Jaffa' [see British Museum Satires No. 10063]; 'Murdering the Duke Danguilme' [d' Enghien, see British Museum Satires No. 10251]; 'Treacherously betraying the king of Spain and his Family' [see British Museum Satires No. 10990]; 'Murdering the inhabitants of Madrid in cold Blood' [see British Museum Satires No. 11000]; 'Murdering Captain Wright in the Temple at Paris' [see British Museum Satires No. 11057]; 'Marrying two Wives and intriguing with the Daughter of one of them' [Hortense, cf. British Museum Satires No. 10362]; 'The Murder of Palm [see British Museum Satires No. 11053] of Hoffer &c &c.'; 'Leading 500000 Frenchmen to perish in Russia by the Severity of the Season 1812' [see British Museum Satires No. 11917, &c.]; 'Loosing another similar Army the following Year in Germany 1813' [see British Museum Satires No. 12093]; 'Writing lying Bulletins' [see British Museum Satires No. 11920]; 'Loosing all the Colonies Commerce and Shipping' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 10439, &c.]. At this point, in the upper right corner, an open cask inscribed 'Dutch Comet', divides the inscriptions. A fat Dutchman smoking a pipe sits astride it; he directs the contents of the cask against Napoleon (see British Museum Satires No. 12102). The final inscription: 'And for all these brilliant Exploits am now to be sent headlong to the Devil.' In the original the rays are faintly inscribed 'Marie Louise' and 'Roi de Rome'. The design is surmounted by the head of the Devil wearing a spiky crown inscribed 'Damnation', between two oval shields: on one a heart, 'Heart of a Tyrant', on the other a 'Vulture'. These emblems replace a crown between two shields, one with the Napoleonic eagle, the other with the Habsburg eagle. From this centre-piece flames and smoke (replacing olive branches) stream left and right, with a scourge and a barbed trident. The lower corners are decorated with trophies slanting outwards from the eagles: spears, eagles, axes, &c., one spear supporting a placard: 'Flags manufactured for the Empress'. In the original spears are faintly indicated."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Astre brillant, immense, il éclaire, il feconde ...
Description:
"Deposée a le Bibloteque Impereale [sic]."--Below lower right corner of image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue; Grego gives a date of 14 December 1813., Title from text in image., and Two lines of text below image: Astre brillant, immense, il éclaire, il feconde, et seul fait, a son gré, tous les destins du monde, 'Vigée.'
Publisher:
R. Ackermann, 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.
"In a goblet-shaped glass vessel on the top of a cylindrical 'German Stove' a little Napoleon is being heated to dissolution point. Two retorts are connected with this vessel inscribed 'Intrigue and Villainy' and 'Ambition and Folly'; four others issue symmetrically from the stove: 'Gasconade and Lies', 'Fire and Sword', 'Arrogance and Atrocity', 'Murder and Plunder'. In the front of the stove is an opening for the fire; this is being stoked by John Bull (left), a fat 'cit' who leans forward, supporting 'Iohn Bulls Coal Tub', and holding out a lump of coal in a pair of tongs. His vis-à-vis is a fat Dutchman (right) who crouches on his knees plying a pair of 'Dutch Bellows'. He wears a cap and is smoking a pipe; beside him is a pot marked 'Gall'. Behind John stand five sovereigns or personifications of their countries: the King of Würtemberg, grotesquely obese, gazes up, pointing a finger as if giving directions; he holds an open book: 'Publishd Wirtemburgh'. Bernadotte, wearing several orders, triumphantly empties into the steaming vessel a bottle labelled 'Sulphat of Swedish Iron'. Behind him are the hussar who stands in these prints for Prussia or Frederick William III, and (?) Francis I. Between Bernadotte and the glass is an older face, perhaps the King of Saxony. All look up exultingly at the tortured Napoleon. Facing this group stands a German officer (right) stretching up to hold a lid which he is about to clap down on the vessel, though this reaches only to below the victim's waist. Napoleon, in profile to the left, puts one hand to his head with a despairing gesture, and flings out his left arm as if to ward off the extinguishing lid; he exclaims: "Oh Spare me till the King of Rome / Is ripe for mischief yet to come." On the extreme right a Spanish don pounds with a pestle in a large mortar inscribed 'Saragossa'. On the left are four men seated close together at a round table where one of them, a large Cossack, is mixing chemicals. He is directed to the left and holds a book while he mixes the contents of a small pot; a pair of scales lies on the table on which are also jars and an hour-glass. The other three watch intently; next him is a man wearing a fur cap inscribed 'Polar Star' (? Sweden or Poland) who also appears in British Museum Satires No. 12117. His neighbour resembles the Emperor of Austria, but he and the man on the extreme left may be the King of Bavaria and the Duke of Baden, princes of the Confederation of the Rhine. On the ground near the table three books are propped up. The largest is open; on the left page but scored through are the words 'Napoleon Protecter of the Rhenish Confederacy'; on the right page: 'Francis Emperor of Germany restored 1813'. The others are 'Liberty of Germany' and 'The Downfall of Boney'. Behind the Cossack, but directed to the right and watching Napoleon, stands the Pope, wearing his tiara and holding a bottle in each hand containing 'Fulminating Powder' and 'Vial of Wrath'. Chemical appliances are indicated in the background."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Dissolving the Rhenish Confederacy
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Charles--XIV John,--King of Sweden and Norway,--1763-1844., Francis--I,--Emperor of Austria,--1768-1835., Frederick--I,--King of Württemberg,--1754-1816--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons., and Pius--VII,--Pope,--1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character)--Caricatures and cartoons.
"Napoleon, on a galloping horse, is confronted by Blücher (right) who fires a blunderbuss at close range. He is pursued by Wellington (left) who gallops towards him, sabre in hand. Napoleon has lost his stirrups; he faces Blücher with arms thrown wide in a gesture of despair. His crown flies from his head, and six eagles (or geese) fly off to the left, above Wellington. In the background, among smoke, cavalry in wild flight (right) and wild pursuit (left) are indicated."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Rudolph Ackermann's transparency on the victory of Waterloo
Description:
Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von,--1742-1819--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons., and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley,--Duke of,--1769-1852--Caricatures and cartoons.
"The scene is the throne-room in the Tuileries, indicated by a part of the throne on its dais on the extreme right, on which are the (discarded) throne and sceptre, and by a large whole length portrait of Louis XVIII, scowling and caricatured, inscribed 'Louis le Bien Aimé'. Napoleon as Harlequin (as in British Museum Satires Nos. 10060, 12515), in parti-coloured tights, a dagger in each hand, leaps through an opening cut in the canvas, hounded by the monarchs of Europe. The portrait (right) shows the fat king holding orb and sceptre, with eyes closed or downcast. The canvas from waist to knees of the portrait is cut neatly away, leaving the King's gouty feet resting squarely on a footstool. Just behind Harlequin is the fat King of Würtemberg on his knees (and paunch) firing a pair of pistols at the fugitive. Across his posterior is the word 'Clown'. Beside him Ferdinand of Spain falls backwards, overbalanced by an attempt to kick ; his crown falls off and he flourishes a sword. He is identified by his slashed doublet, cloak, and flapped boots. Behind (left) a fat powerful Cossack, representing Russia, prods Napoleon with his long spear. He wears a fur cap, trousers tucked into his boots, and has a pair of pistols in his belt. Farther back is the Emperor of Austria wearing a wallet inscribed 'Pantaloon'. He is bearded, slippered, spectacled, and lean, wearing a crown and a dressing-gown. He shuffles forward with clenched fists, holding a dagger. On the extreme left is the Pope, wearing a mitre and holding a headsman's axe against his shoulder. Other figures are nearer the wall which forms a background. Foremost of these is the King of Prussia, close behind Napoleon and firing a blunderbuss. Next is the grotesque Dutchman who stands for the new King of Holland, smoking a pipe, and firing a musket with a fiercely intent expression. Three unidentified crowned heads, and a sharp profile ( ? Bernadotte) with bayonets and spear, and an arm holding up a spiked club make up the crowd of attackers. One of the monarchs takes down from the wall (or hangs up) a three-quarter length portrait of 'Columbine', a young woman with a feathered hat and plump arms held akimbo. She is either Marie Louise (as in British Museum Satires No. 12515), or, according to Broadley, the Duchesse d'Angoulême, an identification supported by the position of her portrait in the same room as that of Louis XVIII."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Title etched below image., and Two lines of text below title: With entire new music, dances, dresses, scenery, machinery &c &c. The principle [sic] characters to be supported by most of the great potentates in Europe, Harlequin by Mr. Napoleon, Clown by King Wirtemberg, Pantaloon Emperor of Austria. To conclude with a comic song to be sung by the Pope and a grand chorus by the crown'd heads. Vivant Rex et Regina.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Angoulême, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte,--duchesse d',--1778-1851--Caricatures and cartoons., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Charles--XIV John,--King of Sweden and Norway,--1763-1844--Caricatures and cartoons., Ferdinand--VII,--King of Spain,--1784-1833--Caricatures and cartoons., Francis--I,--Emperor of Austria,--1768-1835--Caricatures and cartoons., Frederick William--III,--King of Prussia,--1770-1840--Caricatures and cartoons., Frederick--I,--King of Württemberg,--1754-1816--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Louis--XVIII,--King of France,--1755-1824--Caricatures and cartoons., Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons., and Pius--VII,--Pope,--1742-1823--Caricatures and cartoons.
"A design based on Gillray's 'Maniac Ravings', British Museum Satires No. 9998. Napoleon, scarcely caricatured, but poorly characterized, stands addressing an audience of seated men who listen with varying expressions, the corner of his platform projecting into a sea of heads (left), while on the right a file of soldiers with fixed bayonets or drawn swords is indicated. At his side, the little King of Rome, in officer's uniform, with a plumed bicorne, gapes down at the audience; his over-long sabre trails on the ground, he bestrides a tall military cane; his profile resembles without repeating (as in other prints) that of his father, but remains childish and blank. Napoleon stands in a commanding attitude with his right arm extended, his left hand on the hilt of his sabre, legs apart. He wears military dress with a plumed bicorne in which a tricolour cockade is unusually conspicuous. Behind him (right) his arm-chair, closely copied from the 'Consular Chair' of British Museum Satires No. 9998 and with a similar Medusa head, falls, all its legs in air. Beside it, a damaged terrestrial globe, as in British Museum Satires No. 9998, has fallen, but is directed to the left instead of to the right; it has the inscriptions 'America' and 'Atlantic Ocean'. As before, Napoleon's words radiate from his head as if inscribed on clouds. On the right, reading downward: 'Did I not swear I would destroy Austria? Did I not swear I would destroy Prussia Did I not leave the Russians 1200 pieces of cannon to build a monument of the victory of Moscow Did I not lead 498,000 men to gather fresh Laurels in Russia--Did I not burn Moscow--and leave 400,000 brave soldiers to perish in the snow for the good of the French nation?' On the left: 'Did I not swear I would destroy Sweden Did I not swear "I would have" Colonies & Commerce [see British Museum Satires No. 10439, &c.] Did I not build more ships than you could find Sailors for" Did I not burn all the British produce bought and paid for by my faithful merchants--before their faces, for the good of them and my good people of Paris? Have I not called my troops from Holland--that they might not winter in that foggy climate? [see British Museum Satires No. 12102, &c.] Have I not called my troops from Spain and Portugal to the ruin of the English? Did I not change my religion and turn Turk, for the good of the French Nation [see British Museum Satires No. 9973, &c.]. Have I not blown up [the earliest instance in the 'O.E.D.' of blow up, meaning to scold, is Lytton's 'Pelham', 1827] the Corporal, for blowing up the Bridge [see British Museum Satires No. 12108] Have I not robbed the Churches of twenty flags to send to my Empress, for the loss of my own flags & Eagles? And now for the good of my Empire, Behold! O ye Lads of Paris! I have put the King of Rome in Breeches!!!'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Bonaparte, François-Charles-Joseph,--Herzog von Reichstadt,--1811-1832--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.