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Puss in Boots, or General Junot taken by Surprise, 1811

 Item — Box: LF100 Box 1
Reference code: LF100/44
Puss in Boots, or General Junot taken by Surprise, 1811
Puss in Boots, or General Junot taken by Surprise, 1811

Scope and Contents

A comely florid woman, girding up the skirts of her decolletee dress, has dressed up in the cocked hat, jack-boots, and sword-belt of General Junot, and gaily marches beside his bed, flourishing his sword in a gauntleted hand, while she looks over her shoulder for admiration. Junot (right) sits up in bed looking at her angrily, and clutching his breeches, as if afraid she would don those too: her legs are bare above the spurred boots. A cat miaows at her. The bed is curtained and canopied, but a military saddle, hanging from a peg, and a musket show that the general is campaigning. Plate numbered 71. Hand-coloured etching. Description from The British Museum.

Dates

  • Creation: 1811

Conditions Governing Access

Physical item available by appointment in our Reading Room

Extent

1 Item(s)

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository

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