"The interior of a tent. Duroc, in his shirt, lies supported by a soldier on a wooden bed, while Napoleon (right) holds his right hand, turning away (to the right) and covering his face with his left hand. An officer stands solicitously beside the Emperor, supporting his left elbow. Another officer stands (left) behind the head of the low bed. On the extreme left a soldier bends over a table compounding medicaments. Duroc's coat and sword lie on a camp-stool, beside his hat and boots. A glimpse of the distant camp is seen on the extreme right, where a Mameluke stands by the tent holding Napoleon's horse. Duroc is addressing the Emperor, with his left arm extended. Their words are etched below the title: "Duroc, "My whole life has been consecrated to your service, nor do I regret its loss, but for the use it still might have been of to your Buonaparte, "Duroc!" there is a life to come; it is there you are going to wait for me, and where we shall one day meet again!" Duroc, "Yes Sire! but that will not be these thirty years, when you will have triumphed over your enimies [sic], and realised all the hopes of your country, I have lived an honest man: I have nothing to reproach myself with, ah! Sire! go away this sight gives you pain--Be, "Farewell then my friend"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dramatic effect, or, The death of General Duroc, Death of Genl. Duroc, and Death of General Duroc
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., and Watermark: 1809.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 9th, 1813, by Wm. Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street
Subject (Name):
Duroc, Géraud Christophe Michel, duc de Frioul, 1772-1813 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Generals, French, Military officers, Soldiers, Military camps, Deathbeds, War casualties, Wounds & injuries, and Medicines
Page 184. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Dutch officer / by Miss Conway
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility from note in ink on a five of clubs playing card (56 x 83 mm) mounted below drawing; alternative title and statement of responsibility written in pencil at top of image: Dutch officer, by Miss Conway., Date inferred from the use of artist Anne Seymour Damer's maiden name Conway; she was married to John Damer in 1767., and Mounted on page 184 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
Page 183. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
English officer in his morning dress / by Miss Conway
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility from note in ink on a four of hearts playing card (57 x 85 mm) mounted below drawing; alternative title and statement of responsibility written in pencil at top of image: English officer in his morning dress, by Miss Conway., A transformation card., Date inferred from the use of artist Anne Seymour Damer's maiden name Conway; she was married to John Damer in 1767., and Mounted on page 183 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, British, and Ethnic stereotypes
publish'd as the act directs, [approximately 1782?]
Call Number:
782.06.00.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young officer reclining on a sofa, his sword hanging beside him, with his elbow resting on a round table near his hat, looking towards the viewer while a young woman leans over the back of the sofa, holding her fan against his chest and gazing at him admiringly; a vase of flowers in the hearth, landscape of a sailing boat and church on the wall and open window looking to an avenue of trees behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom edge., Plate numbered '342' in lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, British, Sofas, and Fans (Accessories)
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Sailors prayer before battle
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker suggested by curator., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Plate numbered "336" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Print numbered '124' with Ms. annotation.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
Subject (Topic):
Trafalgar, Battle of, 1805, Cannons, Cannon balls, Military officers, Sailors, and Ships
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Sailors prayer before battle
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker suggested by curator., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Plate numbered "336" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 44 in volume 5.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
Subject (Topic):
Trafalgar, Battle of, 1805, Cannons, Cannon balls, Military officers, Sailors, and Ships
Portrait of Henry Seymour Conway, half length, turned slightly left, in an oval
Alternative Title:
Field Marshall Conway
Description:
Title from text below image., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted before page 277 (leaf numbered '95' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs May 1st, 1798, by G.G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, London
Portrait of Henry Seymour Conway, half length, turned slightly left, in an oval
Alternative Title:
Field Marshall Conway
Description:
Title from text below image., Probably a later state, with imprint burnished from plate, of a print published 1 May 1798 by G.G. & J. Robinson. See: Royal Collection Trust online catalogue, RCIN 652832., Mounted on page 87 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11., 1 print : engraving on wove paper ; sheet 17.3 x 13 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Portrait of Henry Seymour Conway, half length, turned slightly left, in an oval
Alternative Title:
Field Marshall Conway
Description:
Title from text below image., Probably a later state, with imprint burnished from plate, of a print published 1 May 1798 by G.G. & J. Robinson. See: Royal Collection Trust online catalogue, RCIN 652832., and Mounted on page 30.
"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
