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1. Contrasted opinions respecting the new emperor [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [16 July 1804]
- Call Number:
- 804.07.16.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two tiers of single English figures expressing appropriate opinions about the coronation of Napoleon."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in dealer's description. Questionably attributed to Isaac Cruikshank in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.188., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., "Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening"--Below image in lower right., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 16th, 1804, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Subject (Topic):
- Foreign public opinion, British, Public opinion, Soldiers, French, Sailors, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Contrasted opinions respecting the new emperor [graphic].
2. French alias Corsican villainy, or, The contrast to English humanity [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [13 January 1804]
- Call Number:
- 804.01.13.01+
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two designs placed side by side, the title so arranged that 'The Contrast' applies to both, the first four and last two words to the two designs respectively. [1] A scene outside Jaffa where the French flag flies from a fort on a rock at whose base are hospital tents (left), in which the sick can be seen. In the foreground Napoleon (a poor portrait) points with an imperious gesture to a bottle of 'Opium' in the hand of a distressed doctor in civilian dress. He says: "Don't talk to me of Humanity & the feelings of a generous heart, I say Poison those Sick dogs they are a burthen to me, & can no longer fight my Battles!!! I say destroy them - As for those Turks, them up in the Garrison, turn all the Guns upon them, Men, Women, & Children & blow them to atoms, they are too bold & resolute for me to suffer them to live, they are in my Way." In the middle distance (left) is a body of Turks, their arms tied behind them, guarded by a French soldier who points at Napoleon. Behind Napoleon two French officers exchange glances, acutely dismayed at the orders." ... [2] Two black soldiers, in neat regimentals, prepare to kill three haggard French officers. One raises an axe to smite a bound prisoner. Two British officers (left) interpose with outstretched arms; one says: "We know they are our Enemies, & yours, & the Enemies of all Mankind, nevertheless Humanity is so strongly planted in the Breast of an Englisman [sic], that he can become an humble beggar, for the lives, even of his enemies, when they are subdued." The other adds: "A mercy unexpected, undeserved surprises more."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Contrast to English humanity
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement in lower right: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Mounted on a 19th-century blue album sheet. On the verso are newspaper clippings on a variety of topics: Sir Lionel Darell and the benevolence of the King to grant him land for his greenhouses in Richmond Park; "Observations on the rot of sheep"; Poem entitled "Leamington Spa"; "Balloon Ascension" an extract from a letter from Bristol, dated Sept 26.; an report of the death of Simon Southward, a miller who was a prisoner for 43 years for debt and the delusion of being the Earl of Derby.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jany. 13, 1804, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Subject (Topic):
- Black people, Flags, French, Forts & fortifications, Tents, Military medicine, Sick persons, Soldiers, Physicians, Opium, Military officers, Prisoners of war, Turkish, British, Physical restraints, and Axes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > French alias Corsican villainy, or, The contrast to English humanity [graphic].
3. The coffin expedition, or, Boney's invincible armada half seas over [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [6 January 1804]
- Call Number:
- 804.01.06.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Gunboats in the form of coffins are foundering or about to founder. Each has a single cannon in the bows, and a mast with a triangular sail whose corner is held in the teeth of the skull which surmounts the mast. The crews all wear shrouds and bonnets rouges; on the skulls also are bonnets rouges. Some of the men are screaming in the water, where a floating skull holds the end of a sail in its teeth, looking round fiercely at one of the drowning men. Others are still in the coffin-gunboats, holding muskets or making gestures of despair. One says: "Oh de Corsican Bougre, was make dese Gun Boats on purpose for our Funeral." In the background are two British men of war. Two tiny sailors say: "I say Messmate if we dont bear up quickly there will be nothing left for us to do", and, "Rigt [sic] Tom, & I take them there things at the mast head to be Boney's Crest, a Skull without Brains." A satire on the manifest impracticability of an invasion (see British Museum Satires No. 10008) by gunboats without the command of the sea, cf. British Museum Satires Nos. 9995, &c, 10125, 10223, 10231, 10260, 10277."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Boney's invincible armada half seas over
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement beneath imprint: Folios of caracatures lent out for the evening., Printseller's stamp in lower right corner: S.W.F., and Mounted at the corners: 30 x 42 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jany. 6th, 1804, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Subject (Topic):
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805, Coffins, Gunboats, Cannons, Rifles, Skulls, Liberty cap, Drowning, Warships, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The coffin expedition, or, Boney's invincible armada half seas over [graphic].