Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. Napoleon (left), in imperial robes, bows with wary and insinuating deference to John Bull, a plebeian and prosperous 'cit'. He holds his crown like a begging-bowl, and lowers his sceptre, saying, "My dear Cousin Bull - I have a request to make you - the good people whom I govern, have been so lavish of their favours towards me - that they have exhausted every title in the Empire - therefore in addition I wish you to make me a Knight of Malt - a". Bull answers: ""I'll see you D------d first!! you know I told you so before". He stands erect, right hand resting on the head of his knotted cudgel, left behind his back. He wears old-fashioned dress: small cocked hat, bushy powdered wig, a large nosegay, a flowered waistcoat defining a huge paunch. Beside him stands his dog, a bone in its mouth, looking up at Napoleon. After the title: 'Query! does not the Emperor mean by this rightequest to become Collector of the Revenues of Mess Whitbread, Thrale &c, &c, &c.' [the chief brewers and therefore maltsters]. Description from the British Museum.