John Bull Garding the Toy Shop or Boney Crying for some more play things
identifier:
BM10118-john-bull-garding-1803
title:
John Bull Garding the Toy Shop or Boney Crying for some more play things
date:
October 29, 1803
description:
An overweight elderly volunteer stands, legs astride, outside the shop of 'Fores Carac[a]tourist to [t]h[e] First Consu[l]', looking down with contempt at Napoleon, who stands pointing a forefinger at the shop-window with his handkerchief to his eye. Napoleon wears his huge bicorne and sabre. Dialoge is in speech balloons over each figure. Only a part of the window of a corner-shop is visible, fronted with iron railings. The panes are filled, not with prints, but with models of London buildings: 'India House', 'St James's', 'Bank', at which Napoleon points, 'Costom House', 'The Treasury', 'Tower'. Behind Napoleon in the distance are houses. Source: George.
description:
British Museum #10118
format:
26 cm x 35 cm
type:
Paper
type:
Etching, hand-colored
coverage:
London, England
relation:
LUCA2019.16 1803
subject:
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French
subject:
John Bull
subject:
Satire
subject:
Great Britain
creator:
S. W. Fores publisher
relation:
Michalak Collection
source:
Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections