- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 July 1808]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.4
- Collection Title:
- V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Napoleon sits on a stool or low-backed hair holding the two younger sons of the King of Spain, dressed as infants in long robes, one on each knee. His legs are wide astride, and with his jackboots he rocks two large wicker cradles on the left and right. Both are inscribed 'Imperial Cradle'; on the right sleep the King and Queen, the latter wearing a nieht-cap, and with her back to her husband. The head of the cradle is inscribed 'The Good Old King and his Amiable Consort.' On the left Ferdinand, a burly infant, sleeps in the cradle inscribed 'Prince of Austurias' [sic]. Napoleon wears a large feathered bicorne, and looks down with a twisted cynical expression at the children on his knee, both fast asleep with expressionless faces. A collar is padlocked round each neck, inscribed 'Antonio and Carlos'. He says: "Hush a bye - Hush a bye - you shall have your crowns again - but I dont know when!"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate numbered "245" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 24 in volume 4.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 12th, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, N. 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Carlos, Prince of Bourbon, 1788-1855, Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, 1784-1833, Charles IV, King of Spain, 1748-1819, and María Luisa, Queen, consort of Charles IV, King of Spain, 1751-1819
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Corsican nurse soothing the infants of Spain [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 July 1808]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.4
- Collection Title:
- V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A spider with the head of Napoleon is the centre of a large irregular web which stretches across the design. He wears his plumed bicorne, and his head is in profile to the left devouring two 'Spanish Flies' which fly into his mouth (Charles IV and Ferdinand). His bloated body is inscribed 'Unbounded Ambition'. The other flies in the web are Austrian Fly (left), with a number of little flies beside it; a swarm of 'Small Flies innumerable' is scattered thickly over the upper part of the web; on the outer circumference (right) the 'Pope Fly', saying, "I am afraid I shall be draggd in." Below: the 'Venetian Fly', a mere corpse; 'Italian Fly'. On the lower part of the web: 'Hamburgh Fly', 'Prussian Fly', 'Hanoverian Fly', 'Etrurion Fly'. The 'Portugeuse Fly', with a bottle (of Port) for a body, is on the circumference of the web. Below the 'Austrian Fly', 'Dutch Fly', with a human head smoking a pipe. Just touching the circumference with its front legs, below the Prussian and Hamburg Flies, is the 'Russian Fly', with the head of the Tsar, wearing a cocked hat; he says: "I declare I was half in the web, before I made the discovery." A large fly flying below the web (left), with a human head wearing a jewelled turban, is the 'Turkish Fly'; he says: "I am afraid it will be my turn next." In the upper left. corner, outside the web, is a solid John Bull, with four wings. He looks down at the spider, saying, "Ay you may look Master Spider but I am not to be caught in your web." Above and below the web are clouds."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate numbered "246" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., For a variant state lacking plate number, see no. 10999 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 81 in volume 4.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 12th, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, 1784-1833, Charles IV, King of Spain, 1748-1819, and Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Corsican spider in his web! / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [15 April 1814]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.5
- Collection Title:
- V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Napoleon is being drummed out of France. His right wrist is tied to the left wrist of Joseph Bonaparte; they are led forward, abjectly crouching, by Blücher, who holds the rope attached to the noose round Napoleon's neck. Napoleon has long ass's ears and wears a fool's cap inscribed 'Transported for Life'; his brother's cocked hat is inscribed 'Coward and Thief'. Both are assailed by serpentine monsters, barbed and scaly, which bite their legs, one inscribed 'Execration', the other 'Detestation'. Both wear uniform with the coats without epaulets and cut off at the waist. Blücher carries against his shoulder a long pole on which is a placard: 'Napolean, Late Emperor of the French, King of Italy Protecter of the Confederation of the Rhine, Grand Arbiter of the fate of Nations &c &c &c but now by the permission of the Allied Sovereigns, Exile in the Isle of Elba an Outcast from Society a fugitive a Vagabond. Yet this is the conceited Mortal who said, I have never been seduced by prosperity Adversity will not be able to overcome me--' Behind (left) the sovereigns of Europe gleefully dance in a ring, holding hands, round two flag-staffs from which float two large flags, the Bourbon flag dotted with fleur-de-lis and inscribed 'Rejoice O ye Kings Vive le Roi'; on the other is a flag with the double-headed eagle of Austria or Russia. The monarchs wear crowns; with them is the Pope, wearing his tiara. Next him is the corpulent Louis XVIII, one arm round the Pope's shoulder. Of the others only William of Holland can be identified with certainty; he wears bulky Dutch breeches with an ermine cloak. There are five others, three must be the Tsar, Emperor of Austria, King of Prussia. The others are probably Ferdinand of Spain and Ferdinand of Sicily. They sing: 'Now we are met a Jolly set in spite of Wind or Weather'. The three foreground figures are faced by a row of soldiers beating drums, with an officer raising his sword."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: From fickle fortune's gamesome lap, what various titles flow, the Emperor of Conj rors, Nap, the King of Beggars Joe!, Plate numbered "321" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 19 in volume 5.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 15, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, 1768-1844, Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von, 1742-1819, Pius VII, Pope, 1742-1823, Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824, William I, King of the Netherlands, 1772-1843, Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825, Frederick William III, King of Prussia, 1770-1840, Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835, Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, 1784-1833, and Ferdinand I, King of the Two Sicilies, 1751-1825
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The rogues march [graphic].