A line of seven figures all caricatured with animalistic features, marching right to left, shown full-length. The first character blows a horn, carries a violin and bow in his hands and on a string around his waist another horn with smoke coming out ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Royalists, History, Animals in human situations, Baskets, Cannons, Hand tools, Musical instruments, Soldiers, and French
A companion plate to Le Départ (British Museum satire no. 12362), satirizing the haste of the English to visit France in 1814 and their gluttony and bad dressing. The Frenchman who cooks a cat is a subject of English caricatures on the favourite them...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign public opinion, National characteristics, English, National characteristics, French, Cats, Cooks, Doves, Eating & drinking, Ethnic stereotypes, Gluttony, and Mail steamers
"French soldiers are being cooked or drowned in a big round vat built of stone, under which a fire is burning. Blücher (left) and Wellington (right) stand over the vat, holding long-handled perforated ladles with which they skim the surface of the wat...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von, 1742-1819, and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Cerberus (Greek mythology), Cooking utensils, Generals, French, Military officers, Prussian, Soldiers, and Vats
A well-dressed young woman visiting her smallpocked uncle, delivers three oranges. Dressed in a robe and nightcap, he sits in a upholstered chair with his feet on a pillow, his face and hands covered in pustules; beside him is a table with a pitcher, ...
Alternative Title:
Petite vèrole
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Chez Gautier rue Poupée, no. 7
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Smallpox, Diseases, Sick persons, Clothing & dress, Sick, and Visiting the sick
