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11. 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].
12. 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].
13. After the invasion the levée en masse, or, Britons strike home. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [6 August 1803]
- Call Number:
- 802.08.06.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Three volunteers or militiamen, three-quarter length figures, exult at the head of Bonaparte which one of them (right) holds up on a pitchfork, saying, "Here he is Exalted my Lads 24 Hours after Landing." The head is in profile to the left, the sharp well-cut features contrast with those of the chubby yokels. The centre figure, holding out his hat, says, turning to the left: "Why Harkee, d'ye zee, I never liked Soldiering afore, but some how or other when I though [sic] of our Sal the bearns, the poor pigs, the Cows and the Geese, why I could have killed the whole Army my own Self." He wears a smock with the crossed straps of a cartouche-box. The third man (left) in regimentals, but round-shouldered and unsoldierly, says: "Dang my Buttons if that beant the Head of that Rogue Boney - I told our Squire this Morning, what do you think say's I the Lads of our Village can't cut up a Regiment of them French Mounsheers, and as soon as the Lasses had given us a Kiss for good luck I could have sworn we should do it and so we have." All three have hats turned up with favours and oak-twigs, the favours being inscribed respectively (left to right): 'Hearts of Oak'; 'Britons never will be Slaves', and 'We'll fight and We'll Conquer again and again'. In the spaces between these foreground figures is seen a distant encounter between English horse and foot and French invaders, who are being driven into the sea, on which are flat-bottomed boats, all on a very small scale. Two women search French corpses; one says: "why this is poor finding I have emtied the pocketts of a score and only found one head of garlic 9 onions & a parcel of pill Boxes." Cf. British Museum Satires No. 8145."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Levée en masse, or, Britons strike home and Britons strike home
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement below image, in lower right: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Augt. 6th, 1803, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Subject (Topic):
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805, Soldiers, British, French, Militias, Pitchforks, Heads (Anatomy), Decapitations, and War casualties
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > After the invasion the levée en masse, or, Britons strike home. [graphic]
14. French volunteers marching to the conquest of Great Britain [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [25 October 1803]
- Call Number:
- 803.10.25.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A mounted officer with drawn sabre heads a procession of 'Volunteers' linked by a chain to his horse and to each other. The horse is a well-bred animal with handsome trappings, but the rider is lean and has torn breeches. He is followed by a file of three whose necks are attached to the horse and whose hands or arms are pinioned. All are miserable wretches, barelegged and ragged; the last, less abject, has sabots and takes snuff. He is chained to the neck of a donkey on whose back is a pannier containing three despairing conscripts. To the animal's tail is tied a low truck on which a moribund shackled man lies on his back, his knees drawn up. To the truck is chained, in a stooping position, a man whose hands are tied behind his back, his nails being long talons. Birds, scenting carrion, fly towards the procession. Below the design: 'Dedicated (by an Eye Witness) to the Volunteers of Great Britain'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched in top part of image., Printmaker identified as Gillray and the artist questionably identified as Charles Loraine Smith in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 21.8 x 60.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark; mounted to 28 x 66 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Octr. 25th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- France.
- Subject (Topic):
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Soldiers, French, and Starvation
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > French volunteers marching to the conquest of Great Britain [graphic]
15. French volunteers marching to the conquest of Great Britain [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [25 October 1803]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A mounted officer with drawn sabre heads a procession of 'Volunteers' linked by a chain to his horse and to each other. The horse is a well-bred animal with handsome trappings, but the rider is lean and has torn breeches. He is followed by a file of three whose necks are attached to the horse and whose hands or arms are pinioned. All are miserable wretches, barelegged and ragged; the last, less abject, has sabots and takes snuff. He is chained to the neck of a donkey on whose back is a pannier containing three despairing conscripts. To the animal's tail is tied a low truck on which a moribund shackled man lies on his back, his knees drawn up. To the truck is chained, in a stooping position, a man whose hands are tied behind his back, his nails being long talons. Birds, scenting carrion, fly towards the procession. Below the design: 'Dedicated (by an Eye Witness) to the Volunteers of Great Britain'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched in top part of image., Printmaker identified as Gillray and the artist questionably identified as Charles Loraine Smith in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., Watermark: 1809 J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 68 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Octr. 25th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- France.
- Subject (Topic):
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Soldiers, French, and Starvation
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > French volunteers marching to the conquest of Great Britain [graphic]
16. French invasion upon Dutch bottoms ombres chinoises / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 14th April 1795.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 71. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Five members of the Opposition watch with admiring surprise 'Ombres Chinoises': figures whose shadows are thrown on a sheet or screen, the scene enclosed in a circle: three fat Dutchmen seated on the sea advance directly towards the spectators. On the shoulders of each sits a French sansculotte soldier, cadaverous and sinister; the central figure wears a cocked hat from which project cannon or trench-mortars, he holds a tricolour flag. The others wear bonnets-rouges; one (left) blows a trumpet, the other (right) beats a drum. The Dutchmen are impassively smoking pipes, two wear French cockades; from the hips of each project the mouths of cannon. The light background of the circle stands out on a tinted ground; above it is a scroll, apparently issuing from the mouth of the trumpet: 'Terror the Order of the Day'. Only the heads and shoulders of the spectators are visible, all in back view except that of Lansdowne on the extreme right, who says "Astonishing effect". The others (left to right) are Fox, looking through a glass as in British Museum Satires No. 8641, Sheridan, Stanhope, and a bishop identified as Watson of Llandaff. Fox says: "what a fine Effect"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Seventh of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition in 1795 ..."; see British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Opposition -- Threat of French invasion of Britain -- Reference to the Dutch fleet -- Military: Dutch soldiers -- Sansculottes -- Bonnet rouge -- Musical instruments -- Slogans: "Terror the order of the day.", 1 print : aquatint and etching on wove paper ; plate mark 30 x 23.6 cm, on sheet 32.7 x 25.8 cm., and Mounted on leaf 71 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Publisher:
- Published by H. Humphrey
- Subject (Name):
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Watson, Richard, 1737-1816
- Subject (Topic):
- Navies, Dutch, Soldiers, French, Cannons, Trumpets, Drums, Flags, Liberty cap, and Pipes (Smoking)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > French invasion upon Dutch bottoms ombres chinoises / [graphic]
17. French invasion upon Dutch bottoms ombres chinoises / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 14th April 1795.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 71. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Five members of the Opposition watch with admiring surprise 'Ombres Chinoises': figures whose shadows are thrown on a sheet or screen, the scene enclosed in a circle: three fat Dutchmen seated on the sea advance directly towards the spectators. On the shoulders of each sits a French sansculotte soldier, cadaverous and sinister; the central figure wears a cocked hat from which project cannon or trench-mortars, he holds a tricolour flag. The others wear bonnets-rouges; one (left) blows a trumpet, the other (right) beats a drum. The Dutchmen are impassively smoking pipes, two wear French cockades; from the hips of each project the mouths of cannon. The light background of the circle stands out on a tinted ground; above it is a scroll, apparently issuing from the mouth of the trumpet: 'Terror the Order of the Day'. Only the heads and shoulders of the spectators are visible, all in back view except that of Lansdowne on the extreme right, who says "Astonishing effect". The others (left to right) are Fox, looking through a glass as in British Museum Satires No. 8641, Sheridan, Stanhope, and a bishop identified as Watson of Llandaff. Fox says: "what a fine Effect"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Seventh of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition in 1795 ..."; see British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Opposition -- Threat of French invasion of Britain -- Reference to the Dutch fleet -- Military: Dutch soldiers -- Sansculottes -- Bonnet rouge -- Musical instruments -- Slogans: "Terror the order of the day.", and Mounted on page 89 with one other print.
- Publisher:
- Published by H. Humphrey
- Subject (Name):
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Watson, Richard, 1737-1816
- Subject (Topic):
- Navies, Dutch, Soldiers, French, Cannons, Trumpets, Drums, Flags, Liberty cap, and Pipes (Smoking)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > French invasion upon Dutch bottoms ombres chinoises / [graphic]
18. French invasion upon Dutch bottoms ombres chinoises / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 14th April 1795.
- Call Number:
- 795.04.14.07+ Impression 1
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 71. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Five members of the Opposition watch with admiring surprise 'Ombres Chinoises': figures whose shadows are thrown on a sheet or screen, the scene enclosed in a circle: three fat Dutchmen seated on the sea advance directly towards the spectators. On the shoulders of each sits a French sansculotte soldier, cadaverous and sinister; the central figure wears a cocked hat from which project cannon or trench-mortars, he holds a tricolour flag. The others wear bonnets-rouges; one (left) blows a trumpet, the other (right) beats a drum. The Dutchmen are impassively smoking pipes, two wear French cockades; from the hips of each project the mouths of cannon. The light background of the circle stands out on a tinted ground; above it is a scroll, apparently issuing from the mouth of the trumpet: 'Terror the Order of the Day'. Only the heads and shoulders of the spectators are visible, all in back view except that of Lansdowne on the extreme right, who says "Astonishing effect". The others (left to right) are Fox, looking through a glass as in British Museum Satires No. 8641, Sheridan, Stanhope, and a bishop identified as Watson of Llandaff. Fox says: "what a fine Effect"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Seventh of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition in 1795 ..."; see British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Opposition -- Threat of French invasion of Britain -- Reference to the Dutch fleet -- Military: Dutch soldiers -- Sansculottes -- Bonnet rouge -- Musical instruments -- Slogans: "Terror the order of the day."
- Publisher:
- Published by H. Humphrey
- Subject (Name):
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Watson, Richard, 1737-1816
- Subject (Topic):
- Navies, Dutch, Soldiers, French, Cannons, Trumpets, Drums, Flags, Liberty cap, and Pipes (Smoking)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > French invasion upon Dutch bottoms ombres chinoises / [graphic]
19. The murder of Custine French gratitude, or, Republican rewards for past services. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [16 September 1793]
- Call Number:
- 793.09.16.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Custine stands on the scaffold beside the guillotine (left). Four ragged ruffians are about to bind him to the plank on which he is to lie; one says, "By Gar so we will serve all de Generals who do not conquer de whole World, and give them de Libertè". Custine says, "Pardon me Heaven for having been leagued with such a set of Blood hounds". A stout soldier pushes a weeping priest, who says "Let us Pray", down the steps (right) which lead up to the scaffold, saying, "Go to de diable & Your Prayers both". Below (right) stand republican soldiers with fixed bayonets much caricatured. On the extreme left a man kneels at the guillotine holding his hat in place of the usual basket; he says, "Begar I will have a Drink of de blood.""--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- French gratitude and Republican rewards for past services
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., 'N' in 'Custine' reversed., and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Sepr. 16, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- France.
- Subject (Name):
- Custine, Adam Philippe, comte de, 1740-1793
- Subject (Topic):
- Executions, Guillotines (Punishment), Priests, Soldiers, French, and Sansculottes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The murder of Custine French gratitude, or, Republican rewards for past services. [graphic]
20. Galic perfidy, or, The national troops' attachment to their general after their defeat at Tournay [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 May 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.05.12.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "General Theobald Dillon (three-quarter length) is being murdered by French soldiers, ruffianly fellows, most of whom wear cocked hats with a tricolour cockade. He is pierced with many bayonets, and his throat is cut; his head is dragged backwards by a man who grasps his hair in hands and teeth. He puts up an arm crying, "oh le Pauvre Dillon". A man with sabre raised to slash again, says, "Encore Encore." Two of the men say "Ca-ira". One who is using his bayonet says, "oh by Gar dis will be de brave news for de new association in England."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- National troops' attachment to their general after their defeat at Tournay
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Watermark: Strassbourg lily on crowned armorial shield with initials G R below.
- Publisher:
- Pub. May 12, 1792, by S.W. Fores, 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Dillon, Theobald, 1745-1792. and Society of the Friends of the People (Great Britain)
- Subject (Topic):
- Assassinations, Tournai, Belgium, Battle of, 1745, Black people, Soldiers, French, and War casualties
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Galic perfidy, or, The national troops' attachment to their general after their defeat at Tournay [graphic].
