"The interior of a tent. Duroc, in his shirt, lies supported by a soldier on a wooden bed, while Napoleon (right) holds his right hand, turning away (to the right) and covering his face with his left hand. An officer stands solicitously beside the Emperor, supporting his left elbow. Another officer stands (left) behind the head of the low bed. On the extreme left a soldier bends over a table compounding medicaments. Duroc's coat and sword lie on a camp-stool, beside his hat and boots. A glimpse of the distant camp is seen on the extreme right, where a Mameluke stands by the tent holding Napoleon's horse. Duroc is addressing the Emperor, with his left arm extended. Their words are etched below the title: "Duroc, "My whole life has been consecrated to your service, nor do I regret its loss, but for the use it still might have been of to your Buonaparte, "Duroc!" there is a life to come; it is there you are going to wait for me, and where we shall one day meet again!" Duroc, "Yes Sire! but that will not be these thirty years, when you will have triumphed over your enimies [sic], and realised all the hopes of your country, I have lived an honest man: I have nothing to reproach myself with, ah! Sire! go away this sight gives you pain--Be, "Farewell then my friend"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dramatic effect, or, The death of General Duroc, Death of Genl. Duroc, and Death of General Duroc
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., and Watermark: 1809.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 9th, 1813, by Wm. Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street
Subject (Name):
Duroc, Géraud Christophe Michel, duc de Frioul, 1772-1813 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Generals, French, Military officers, Soldiers, Military camps, Deathbeds, War casualties, Wounds & injuries, and Medicines
"Portrait of the actress Charlotte Walpole dressed as a sentry in her role as Nancy in R.B. Sheridan's 'The Camp', an infantry soldier standing pointing and directed to left, holding rifle against left elbow, wearing cocked hat on powdered hair with a cockade, a thatched cottage in background to right with a sign lettered 'CW', the tents of a military camp in a field down the hill to left; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Early state, before title changed to "Nancy" and before verses added below image. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1906,0419.130., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 99 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 22d, 1780, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Atkyns, Charlotte Walpole, Lady, approximately 1758-1836,
Subject (Topic):
Actresses, Soldiers, Guards, Military camps, and Theatrical productions
Volume 1, page 14. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 99. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of the actress Charlotte Walpole dressed as a sentry at Cox Heath in her role as Nancy in R.B. Sheridan's 'The Camp', standing on a hill above a military camp at left which she points towards, a cabin with letters 'CW' on the side and smoking chimney behind; after Bunbury, published state after change of title."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate originally published with the title "Miss Walpole" and without the verses below image. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,66.33., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: My Nancy leaves the rural plain, a camps distress to prove; All other ills she can sustain, but living from her love., Plate numbered "3" in upper left corner., Mounted on page 99 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; sheet 23.9 x 18.2 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of plate number from upper left corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 22d, 1780, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Atkyns, Charlotte Walpole, Lady, approximately 1758-1836,
Subject (Topic):
Actresses, Soldiers, Guards, Military camps, and Theatrical productions
"View of a row of tents and temporary shelters, one with the sign "Lloyds Coffee House", a group of four ladies outside, in foreground to right four children play, trees in background on left, a building in distance on right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Imprint and subtitle partially burnished from plate?, Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right edge., Fourth plate from the first of two sets of semi-comic small etchings, each set comprised of ten plates. Plates from this first set are numbered in Roman numerals in lower right, and the British Museum enters the plates as 'Ten Views of Encampments in Hyde-Park and Black-Heath (first series)' based on the title of the first plate in the second set. For further information, see Curator's comments for museum number 1904,0819.620 in the British Museum online catalogue., and Plate numbered "IIII" in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Publishd. as the act directs by P. Sandby
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Military camps, British, Military life, Soldiers, Children, Tents, and Canteens (Facilities)