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1. Military tactics for Continental service a hint to corpulent officers. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, attributed name
- Published / Created:
- [September 1810]
- Call Number:
- 810.09.00.02.1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Political satire on the British military action in Spain during the Peninsular War: Lieutenant-General Arthur Wellesley expresses surprise to an overweight soldier, sweating after fleeing from the French, that is was able to re-join the rest of the army
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Probably etched by William Heath. See British Museum satire 11361 for similarity of style., Lettered with imprint and series statement in additon to speech balloons., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Partial watermark: [illegible].
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Septr., 1810 by Thos. Tegg 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Name):
- Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
- Subject (Topic):
- Peninsular War, 1807-1814, Obesity, Soldiers, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Military tactics for Continental service a hint to corpulent officers. [graphic]
2. Simptoms of courage! [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- March 26, 1808.
- Call Number:
- 808.03.26.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "British troops are about to march through a large fortified gate leading from open country (left) to the town of Buenos Ayres, where confused street-fighting is in progress. Can are fired from the battlements of the gate at the soldiers, some of whom lie dead or wounded. In the foreground an officer (mounted), in conversation with others, asks: "where is the General"; others say: "go look for the General"; "Find the General"; "why the General is lost". A Highland officer, taking snuff (right), slyly; "I dare say he is varra safe." From the country (left) three mounted men gallop, all saying, "I come for Orders". In the background Whitelocke's head and shoulders are seen peeping over a hillock on the extreme left. He says: "He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day, But he thats in the Battle slain, Will never live to fight again". In the distance, behind him, are tiny (British) soldiers in close formation. In the city men are firing and hurling stones from the roofs of flat-roofed houses on British soldiers in the plaza. On the wall (right) is a placard: 'Lost, or Mis-led a General officer Who ever can [give] Information ... ampl[y] rewarded.'"--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Symptoms of courage
- Description:
- Title etched below image., "G. Whiteliver" is a pseudonym. Questionable attribution to Isaac Cruikshank from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.7629., Variously attributed to either Isaac or George Cruikshank; see British Museum catalogue., Title is a direct reference to an Isaac Cruikshank print, published by S.W. Fores in 1790, entitled "Symptoms of courage, or, The tables turned." Cf. No. 7667 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top edge., and Penciled note in an unidentified hand: relates to Genl. Whitelock's conduct at Buenos Ayres, S. America.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- Argentina and Buenos Aires.
- Subject (Name):
- Whitelocke, John,
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Campaigns & battles, Soldiers, British, Military officers, Scottish, Ethnic stereotypes, Gates, and Signs (Notices)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Simptoms of courage! [graphic]
3. The consequence of invasion, or, The hero's reward [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 August 1803]
- Call Number:
- 803.08.01.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A very fat and jovial volunteer, dressed as a light horseman, holds ln his left hand a pole on which is the head of Napoleon in profile to the right. and wearing a huge cocked hat decorated with plumes, tricolour cockade, gold lace, and tassels. The hand that holds the pole holds also, by the hair, a bunch of bleeding heads which form a grisly garland round it. In his right hand is his sabre. He is surrounded by women; two embrace him, others hasten up; he swaggers with raised left leg, saying, "There you rouges, there! there's the Boney Part - twenty more killed them!! twenty more killed them too!! I have destroyed half the Army with this same Toledo." The women say, respectively: "Bless the Warrior that saved our Virgin charms"; "take care I'll smother him with Kisses"; "Oh! what frightful Heads how ravishing they look, - they would have used us ill I am sure"; "ha ha, thats, that great man little Boney, how glum he looks." An elderly spinster exclaims: "ah bless him he has saved us from Death and Vileation." A handsome woman turns to a tall young man in civilian dress on the extreme left, saying, "There you Poltroon look how that noble Hero's Caressed!" He turns away, saying, "Ods Niggins I wish I had been a Soldier too then the Girls would have run after me - but I never could bear the smell of Gun powder"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Hero's reward
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Preceding imprint are the words "Pubd. July", which have been mostly obscured with shading., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures lent out for the evening., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., Text following title: None but the brave dsere [sic] the fair., Text within bottom part of image, above imprint: The Yeomanry Cavalry's first essay., and Watermark: Slade 1802.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. August 1st, 1803, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Subject (Topic):
- Soldiers, British, Obesity, Daggers & swords, Heads (Anatomy), Decapitations, and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The consequence of invasion, or, The hero's reward [graphic].
4. The honest-private and great-colonel vide Guildhall toasts / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 November 1803]
- Call Number:
- 803.11.21.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Pitt dressed as a volunteer officer, drills Fox and Sheridan, who stand at attention, holding muskets. Pitt, in back view, turns his head to Fox (1.) and points with his sabre, held horizontally, to Sheridan (r.). Fox stands correctly, Sheridan raises his right. arm above his head and grins broadly. Pitt says: "Keep your Eye upon the Corporal Mr Honesty and when I have drilled you to my likeing perhaps I may take you under my command Mr Honesty". Fox says: "I do I do great Colonel I shall mind my Manoeuvres Great Colonel." The scene is the open country."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Gog & Magog are pseudonyms for printmaker Charles Williams., Place of publication based upon cataloger's conjecture., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Novr. 21st., 1803 by C. Knight Lambeth
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians, British, and Soldiers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The honest-private and great-colonel vide Guildhall toasts / [graphic]