Collection Items
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Photo, Print, DrawingFrench invasion - or - Buonaparte landing in Great-Britain 1 print : engraving, color. | Cartoon showing Napoleon and his army, on seashore, fleeing from English soldiers with a British flag and two cannons on a low sandy cliff.
- Contributor: Gillray, James
- Date: 1803-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingDestruction of the French gun-boats-or-Little Boney & his friend Talley in high glee 1 print : engraving, color. | Cartoon showing Napoleon, sitting on the shoulder of Talleyrand, gleefully peering through a large rolled document, "Talleyrand's plan for invading Great Britain", at the channel, where the French flotilla is being destroyed by shells from British ships. Talleyrand stands behind the gun embrasures of a fortress on a cliff at whose base the gunboats are foundering. On the...
- Contributor: Gillray, James
- Date: 1803-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingEvacuation of Malta 1 print : etching, color. | Addington squats over cocked hat into which he evacuates papers including "Egypt," "Guadeloupe," and last, "Malta," Napoleon holds him by the cravat and threatens him.
- Contributor: Gillray, James
- Date: 1803-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingPhysical air,-or-Britannia recover'd from a trance;-also, the patriotic courage of Sherry Andrew; & a peep thro' the fog 1 print : engraving, color. | Cartoon showing Britannia, terrified, faint, and dishevelled, sitting on the ground supported by Addington and Hawkesbury, and defended by Sheridan, a Silenus-like and ragged Harlequin. They are on the Dover coast, towards which are advancing many rowboats filled with little French soldiers, lead by Napoleon. The distant French coast is covered with troops marching towards the shore.
- Contributor: Gillray, James
- Date: 1803-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingDoctor Sangrado curing John Bull of repletion-with the kind offices of young Clysterpipe & Little Boney - a hint from Gil Blas 1 print : engraving, color | Cartoon showing Addington saying, "courage John Bull-courage", as he bleeds arm of John Bull, who is supported by Hawkesbury, who repeats "courage Johnny". Napoleon holds out his hat to catch the blood, "West Indies, Cape of Good Hope, Malta", as Fox and Sheridan offer bowls of warm water, as they both say "courage".
- Contributor: Gillray, James
- Date: 1803-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingArmed-heroes 1 print : engraving, color. | Cartoon showing Addington, saying "Who's afraid? ...", and Napoleon facing each other defiantly across a narrow channel. Behind Addington on the front bench in the House of Commons is Hawkesbury saying, "Ah who's afraid now of marching to Paris? ah who's afraid now."
- Contributor: Gillray, James
- Date: 1803-01-01