V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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A satire on Napoleon's Russian campaign. "Cossacks, led by Platoff, pursue, across a river, a fox with the head and huge bicorne of Napoleon. The Russians ride their horses through the water. The fox, larger in scale than the other figures, takes a flying leap to the shore (right). He says: "Hark, I hear the Cry of Cossacks. The [sic] have got Scent of me -I must take to my heels once more, the are close to my Brush." His tail is inscribed 'Corsican Fox'. Across the lower edge of the design runs a strip of land on which are frogs; one, inscribed 'French Frog', waddles off, while one on the extreme left is being speared. Of the other frogs a few turn to oppose the Cossacks with bayonets; these have a tricolour flag; the majority are escaping to the right, a row of heads and sloped bayonets, with one eagle. Platoff, whose high fur cap has a long plume inscribed 'Platoff', riding with levelled spear, shouts: "Hark forward my boys get along! he runs in view. Yoics. Yoics. There he goes, Tally-ho!" His daughter, in the middle distance, rides through the water, pointing with the hand that holds the reins, and raising a whip; she shouts: "Hi, ho, Tally, ho! For a husband." Cossacks gallop up from the background (left), leap from a low cliff into the river, and swim through it, one carrying a standard with the Russian eagle, behind the two Platoffs. In the background is a town flying a flag inscribed 'Leapsic'; tiny horsemen, evidently Cossacks, gallop out of the city gate."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Platoff hunt in full cry after French game
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '218' in upper right corner., and "Price one shilling coloured."--Following imprint statement.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 9th 1813 by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Russia. and England
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Platov, Matveĭ Ivanovich, graf, 1751-1818.
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, Campaigns of 1813-1814, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Campaigns, Cossacks, and Satires (Visual works)
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satire on Napoleon's Russian campaign. "Cossacks, led by Platoff, pursue, across a river, a fox with the head and huge bicorne of Napoleon. The Russians ride their horses through the water. The fox, larger in scale than the other figures, takes a flying leap to the shore (right). He says: "Hark, I hear the Cry of Cossacks. The [sic] have got Scent of me -I must take to my heels once more, the are close to my Brush." His tail is inscribed 'Corsican Fox'. Across the lower edge of the design runs a strip of land on which are frogs; one, inscribed 'French Frog', waddles off, while one on the extreme left is being speared. Of the other frogs a few turn to oppose the Cossacks with bayonets; these have a tricolour flag; the majority are escaping to the right, a row of heads and sloped bayonets, with one eagle. Platoff, whose high fur cap has a long plume inscribed 'Platoff', riding with levelled spear, shouts: "Hark forward my boys get along! he runs in view. Yoics. Yoics. There he goes, Tally-ho!" His daughter, in the middle distance, rides through the water, pointing with the hand that holds the reins, and raising a whip; she shouts: "Hi, ho, Tally, ho! For a husband." Cossacks gallop up from the background (left), leap from a low cliff into the river, and swim through it, one carrying a standard with the Russian eagle, behind the two Platoffs. In the background is a town flying a flag inscribed 'Leapsic'; tiny horsemen, evidently Cossacks, gallop out of the city gate."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Platoff hunt in full cry after French game
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '218' in upper right corner., "Price one shilling coloured."--Following imprint statement., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 24.9 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Leaf 77 in volume 3., and On wove paper, hand-colored.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 9th 1813 by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Russia. and England
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Platov, Matveĭ Ivanovich, graf, 1751-1818.
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, Campaigns of 1813-1814, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Campaigns, Cossacks, and Satires (Visual works)
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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still image
Alternative Title:
Sketch of the life of Buonaparte
Description:
Title etched below images., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Two designs arranged horizontally on one plate, with a single collective below; each design is individually titled, has an explanatory caption below the title, and has a double border surrounding the image and text., Caption for leftmost design entitled "Democratic innocence": The young Buonaparte & his wretched relatives, in their native poverty, while free booters in the island of Corsica., Caption for rightmost design entitled "Democratic humility": Buonaparte when a boy recieved [sic] thro the Kings bounty into the Ecole Militaire at Paris., A copy of a print by Gillray of the same title that was published 12 May 1800. Cf. No. 9534 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., "Pl. 1" etched above left design, outside double border; "Pl. 2" etched above right design, outside double border., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Leaf 45 in volume 1.
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
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still image
Description:
Titles etched below images., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Two designs arranged horizontally on one plate; each design has an individual title below, an explanatory caption underneath the title, and a double border surrounding the image and all text., Caption for leftmost design entitled "Democratic gratitude": Buonaparte, heading the Regicide Banditti which had dethron'd & murder'd the monarch whose bounty had foster'd him., Caption for rightmost design entitled "Democratic religion": Buonaparte, turning Turk at Cairo for interest, after swearing on the sacrement to support the Catholic faith., A copy of two panels from Gillray's print, published 12 May 1800, entitled: Democracy, or, A sketch of the life of Buonaparte. Cf. No. 9534 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Leaf 44 in volume 1.
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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"General Frost towers above Napoleon who stands in the snow, his arms folded, while Frost, standing behind him, holds his victim's nose, and flourishes a large razor of 'Russian Steel'. Frost is a grotesque monster, nude to the waist and with the legs of a bear; his great feet are planted upon two groups of little French soldiers, crushing them into the snow. He is emaciated and old, with glaring eyeballs, wide mouth fringed with fang-like teeth, and huge moustache; a blast issues from each nostril; one inscribed 'North' slants down upon Napoleon's head, the other, slanting to the right, is inscribed 'North East--Snow and Sleet'; these are white against a dark sky. He has icicles for eyebrows and on his head are jagged pinnacles inscribed 'Mountain of Ice'. This is irradiated by a disk above his head inscribed 'Polar--Star'. His fingers are talons. From his mouth float the words: "Invade My Country indeed--I'll Shave--Freeze--and Bury you in Snow--You little Monkey." Tears fall from Napoleon's eyes, and he says: "Pray--Brother--General--have Mercy, dont overwhelm me with your hoary element, You have so niped me, that my very Teeth chatter Oh--dear--I am quite Chop fallen." A telescope is thrust under his arm. He wears the wide plumed bicorne of earlier caricatures. In the background on the left is 'Moscow' in flames; on the right the buildings of 'Petersbourg', and, nearer the foreground, 'Riga'. Above the horizon rise icebergs in fantastic shapes."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
General Frost shaving Little Boney
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker's signature followed by a symbol: A circle with a cross inside and an arrow projecting from the top., Date precedes publisher's statement in imprint., Plate numbered "181" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., "Price one shilling coloured.", Watermark: Basted Mill 1812., and Leaf 94 in volume 3.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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"Atlas (right), bearded and muscular, nude except for swirling drapery, kneels on one knee, supporting with both hands a terrestrial globe which he pushes towards Napoleon on whom it is about to fall. The Emperor staggers back, dropping his sword, his left arm and right leg are raised high, to ward off the impact. He looks up, terrified, and says: "France be mine! Holland be mine! Italy be mine! Spain & Poland be mine! Russ, Prussia Turky, de whole World vil be mine!!! Monsr Atlas hold up dont let it fall on me." Atlas, with a menacing frown, answers: "When the Friends of Freedom and Peace have stop'd your shakeing it on my shoulders [and] got their own again, I'll bear it, till then you may carry it yourself Master Boney!" Close behind Napoleon (left) two French marshals or generals flee to the left, looking back at the globe One (left) says: "By Gar tis true tis fall on your Head! votre Serviteur! we no stop to be crush vid you"; the other: "Votre Serviteur Monsr Boney." Napoleon's head is scarcely caricatured, the generals are grotesques in the manner of Gillray, e.g. in British Museum Satires No. 9403, 'French Generals retiring, on account of their Health . . .' The globe is patterned with continents and islands regardless of geography."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Grasp all, lose all, Atlas enraged, and Punishment of unqualified ambition
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Three lines of quoted text, from Spenser's The faerie queene, following title: "Most wretched wight, whom nothing might suffice, "whose greedy lust, did lack in greatest store ..., Plate numbered "254" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., "Price one shilling cold."--Following imprint., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 35 in volume 4.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1st, 1813, by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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"Three Bonapartes leap from one to another grass-topped rock set in the sea. There are six, from Corsica, the smallest to Dover, the broadest. The first makes a 'Hop' from 'Corsica' to 'France'. The second stands arms akimbo, head turned in profile to the right., the 1. foot on 'Ambition', the r. planted on a higher rock: 'Power'. This is 'Step'. The third has made a 'Jump' into the air from 'Calais', and descends on to the sword-point of John Bull, who is firmly planted on 'Dover'. Napoleon wears an enormous cocked hat (which flies off in his final leap) with tricolour cockade and plume, tricolour sash over his military coat, tight breeches, and boots. Below the three stages of his progress: '[1] From indigence in Corsica To Affluence in France. [2] From aspiring Ambition To the summit of Power. [3] From Calais to Dover Where little John Bull does the Corsican over'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a second reissue of a plate first published ca. July 1803 by Piercy Roberts. Original imprint statement, "Pubd. by Roberts 28 Middle Row," is still visible beneath title. Plate was first reissued by Thomas Tegg in 1807; the year "1807" is seemingly present at the end of Tegg's imprint statement but has been obscured by etched lines. See British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges; probable loss of plate numbering from top right corner., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 55 in volume 1.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
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still image
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"The comet has the profile head of Napoleon wearing a plumed bicorne; it rushes up from the left towards the sun, the profile head of George III, much irradiated. John Bull, a carbuncled 'cit', stoops low to look through a telescope on a tripod pointing towards the comet. Napoleon looks up at the King, who gazes fixedly above his head. He has ascended from a small piece of land rising from the narrow Channel separating it from John's wider fragment. Up this a frog clambers. On the open sea ships are strung out along the horizon. John says: "Aye - Aye - Master Comet - you may attempt your Periheliums - or your Devil heliums for what I care but take the word of an Old Man you'll never reach the Sun depend upon it"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
John Bull making observations on the comet
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; former plate number "29" has been replaced with a new number, and date has been removed from end of imprint statement., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: London, Printed for Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, 10th Novr. 1807. Cf. No. 10769 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate numbered "274" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured.", 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.7 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 52 in volume 4.
Publisher:
Printed for Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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still image
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"John Bull sits holding against his knee Napoleon, an elongated puppet, in the position of a bass viol (viol da gamba). His left hand holds the elongated neck; in his right. is a sword, which he draws like a bow across his instrument's body. Napoleon is in profile, facing John, his mouth wide open, as if throttled; he holds a sword limply in his left hand. He wears military uniform with large feathered bicorne. John's hat and wig lie on the ground; he is a prosperous 'cit' in old-fashioned dress, and looks towards the spectator with a satisfied smile. 'Britons strike home' is engraved above his head."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull playing on the base villain
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Reissue by Tegg of a plate first published by Piercy Roberts in 1803; Roberts's imprint statement has been crossed out but is partially legible in lower left corner of design. See British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "259" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges., and Leaf 84 in volume 4.
Publisher:
Pubd. Janry. 1, 1807, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London