Napoleon in bed wearing a nightshirt holds a map of Malta while visions of soldiers poisoned in the hospital at Jaffe, the massacre at Paris 18 Vendémiaire, the invasion of England, ghosts of the 3800 murdered Turks on the sand hills of Syria, the surrender of Ajacio in 1793, Wellington seeking revenge, his attempted poisoning, and murder by his own soldiers fill the room
Alternative Title:
Boney's visions
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist tentatively identified as Lt-Col Thomas Braddyll, a young amateur who supplied designs for satirical prints to James Gillray. See British Museum online catalogue., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., For a later print with a similar theme and title, see no. 11736 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 9., and Watermark: Russel & Co. 1799.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 and Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805
Volume 1, page 77. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"This etching gives a portrait to the hips in profile, to our right, of an elderly woman, with a big nose and a protruding lower jaw: she wears a close cap, trimmed with lace at the fore edges; her right hand hangs in front of her body in a listless manner; she stoops."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mrs. A. Young, of Eltham, 1746
Description:
Title from contemporary note in brown ink below image., Additional title from annotation on British Museum impression of a variant state; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1852,1211.148., Printmaker and date from Horace Walpole's note in brown ink, in lower right corner: By Mr. W. Fauquier 1783., Variant (later?) state, with printmaker's initials etched in lower right corner. For a state lacking these initials, see no. 2845 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3., and Mounted on page 77 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Gulston, Eliza B., 1749 or 1750-1779 or 1780, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd as the act directs 2d March 1772.
Call Number:
Folio 49 3588 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 71. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Caricature: a stout gentleman standing in profile to right, grinning, right hand behind his back, left tucked into his waistcoat, wearing a sword, frock coat and queue wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by curator., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 71 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.