Boneys Journey to London or the Reason why he is so Long in Comeing i.e. Because he travels like a Snail with his House at his Back, [1803 - 1804]
Scope and Contents
Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. Ranks of French soldiers push hard at poles attached to a small hut on wheels, which they painfully drag (left to right) under the knotted lash of a tall officer. From a window in its gable end (right) Napoleon leans out, saying, "You Vagabones make haste, Vite, Vite, or I shall not get to London by Christmass, give them more of the Fraternal Whip the Dam Rascals do not know the Value of Liberty!!" His window is flanked by fasces with axes, and surmounted by crossed daggers; below it a guillotine is depicted with the motto 'Liberte Toute Entiere'. On the gable end is a cap of liberty. In the side of the hut is a door, inscribed 'Grande Chambre for recieve de Petitions from de Englishmen'. Beside it, and on the extreme left is a window from which looks a cook, knife in hand; he says: "Me no smell de Beef Yet". Within it hang bunches of onions labelled 'to season de Beef', and a frog. Above: 'Cuisine for roast de English Beef ma Foi'. Smoke issues from a small chimney. The soldiers are lean, ragged, and submissive. They wear plumed shakos and have large knapsacks strapped to their backs surmounted by flat drinking-bottles. Description from the British Museum.
Dates
- Creation: [1803 - 1804]
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English
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