Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: James Gillray. Napoleon stamps in fury, right arm outstretched with clenched fist, left fist on his forehead. His frantic gestures have overturned table (left), 'Consular Chair', and terrestrial globe, both on the extreme right. His huge plumed cocked hat lies on the floor; his (sheathed) sabre is broken. From his head issue swirling words: (left) "English Newspapers- \ English Newspapers!!! \ Oh, English Newspapers!!! \ hated & Betray'd by the French! -...

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Artist: M. Rainsford. Napoleon squeezes gold pieces from the Dutch, promising an invasion of the British Isles, while John Bull looks on laughing. Published May 27 1803 by T. Williamson No 20 Strand London.

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. A bull-dog (left) and a monkey, dressed as Napoleon (right), stand on their respective sides of a large 'Plan for Invadeing England' which shows the island of Great Britain, inscribed 'England', and the 'Coast of France' [incorrectly placed], with the Channel and North Sea covered with marks indicating flotillas of invasion craft lettered from 'A' to 'Q'. The dog, his collar inscribed '[Jo]hn Bull', holds in his mouth a large bone: 'Malta';...

Scope and Contents Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: S. W. Fores. An Irish peasant, uncouth and brawny, stands on the sea-shore using his spade to fling earth and stones against French invaders headed by Napoleon. All the Frenchmen are skeletons dressed as soldiers and holding weapons. Napoleon (right) steps out of the water flourishing a sabre; one leg-bone is in a jack-boot, the other terminates in a hoof. The heads and shoulders of his marching troops emerge from the water, their grisly jaws wide open....

Scope and Contents Published: Piercy Roberts. An Irish peasant, carrying on his back a huge sack of potatoes, trudges with a shillelagh towards 'Dublin' (right), whose buildings appear on the horizon; in his hat is a sprig of olive. He looks over his shoulder at Napoleon, who holds a money-bag, and who pierces the sack with a dagger so that potatoes fall out. Napoleon says: "I say Paddy - Give up the bag quietly and you shall have this Purse of Gold." Paddy answers: "I see what you are at - you sly Teaf of the...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. Napoleon (left), in profile to the right, holds a large millstone inscribed 'Hanover'. He wears the customary huge cocked hat and long sabre. Facing him stands John Bull, an uncouth yokel, in smock and gaiters, with a staff in his right hand. He says, with an expression of rustic shrewdness: "What thee hast got it hast thee? - the Devil do thee good with it, Old Measter Chatham used to say it was a Millstone round my neck - so perhaps I may...

Scope and Contents Print made: James Gillray. After: Lt-Col Thomas Braddyll. Published: Hannah Humphrey. George III, half length, stands in profile to the left, a holding a tiny Napoleon on the palm of his right hand, and inspecting him through a spy-glass. He says: "My little friend Grildrig, you have made a most admirable \ "panegyric upon Yourself and Country, but from what I can \ "gather from your own relation & the answers I have with \ "much pains wringed & extorted from you, I cannot but con- \...

Scope and Contents Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: Thomas Williamson. A showman, wearing a hat, wig, and gown suggestive of the Speaker (but quite unlike Abbot), stands holding a long wand to display a scaly monster with wide-open mouth fringed with teeth. The audience are (left to right) a Scot, an Irishman, and an Englishman, unsophisticated fellows. Inside the gaping jaws are a country house, hay-stacks, trees, and grazing cattle, a ship with furled sails, and a treasure-chest. The showman says: "You...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. George III (left), as a huntsman, stands beside his white (Hanoverian) horse, holding up to a pack of hounds a fox with the head of Napoleon. He is in 'profil perdu', and grips the frantic animal by the neck. On the right are the hounds, eager for the kill; others swim across a stream on the farther side of which members of the hunt are galloping up, tiny figures led by Pitt, who echoes "Tally ho" to the King's "Tally-ho! - Tally-ho! - ho! -...

Scope and Contents Published: Piercy Roberts. Napoleon measures John Bull with a gigantic pair of compasses. The First Consul, very military and active, wearing an enormous cocked hat, stands legs astride, head in profile to the right, and looking at John through a quizzing-glass. John, a fat 'cit', much larger than Napoleon, holds his right fist clenched; his left arm is behind his back. His person is covered with inscriptions: 'Wig Department', 'Department of the Head', 'Arm Department', 'Department of the...

Scope and Contents Artist: Thomas Rowlandson. Published: Thomas Williamson. Napoleon, immensely elongated, bestrides a prancing horse on the summit of a globe on which 'Swisserla[nd]', 'Germany', and 'Italy' are marked, the upper part only being within the design. Napoleon, in profile to the left, holds a drawn sword inscribed 'Vive La Republique'. The horse is crowned; its collar is inscribed 'Power', the tail-strap 'Libertas'. Below the title: 'A Design for an Intended Statue on the Place la Liberté at...

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Published: Thomas Williamson. Political satire; Napoleon is shown with sabre, spurs and plumed hat on a ladder which breaks just as he is reaching for two crowns, a sceptre and a mitre on top of a column, saying "Oh curse he Ladder! An inch more would have done the Business!"; John Bull stands ready with a pitch-fork pointing at Napoleon, saying "Never mind Bonny, I'll catch you & break your Fall!!! Description from the British Museum.

Scope and Contents Print made by: James Gillray. John Bull is a sailor, stripped to the waist, his trousers turned up, who stands arms akimbo in the English Channel. He looks at Napoleon, whose head peers over the top of a triple fortification on the French coast, bristling with guns, at the base of which small gun-boats are drawn up, on a low cliff rising from the sea. Napoleon, wearing his feathered cocked hat, haggard and alarmed, says: "I'm a com'ing! I'm a' coming!!!" Beside him flies a tricolour flag...

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After: P. F. Mitchell. Published: Piercy Roberts. Political satire: Napoleon stands beside a grinning devil, who emerges from the ground, looking across the channel, full of ships, at Britain seething with battalions, saying that he will lose his easily acquired fame if he invades, and must persuade the French that he should not command the expedition, fearing he will meet his friend the devil sooner than he wishes if he does so. Description from the British Museum.

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. Three volunteers or militiamen, three-quarter length figures, exult at the head of Bonaparte which one of them (right) holds up on a pitchfork, saying, "Here he is Exalted my Lads 24 Hours after Landing." The head is in profile to the left., the sharp well-cut features contrast with those of the chubby yokels. The centre figure, holding out his hat, says, turning to the left.: "Why Harkee, d'ye zee, I never liked Soldiering afore, but some...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. After the title: 'None but the Brave dsere [sic] the Fair'. A very fat and jovial volunteer, dressed as a light horseman, holds in his left hand a pole on which is the head of Napoleon in profile to the right and wearing a huge cocked hat decorated with plumes, tricolour cockade, gold lace, and tassels. The hand that holds the pole holds also, by the hair, a bunch of bleeding heads which form a grisly garland round it. In his right hand is...

Scope and Contents Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: S. W. Fores. Napoleon, enthroned, arrogantly devours papers inscribed: 'Address to the Deified Consul'. His semicircular dais is surrounded by seven abject Belgian notables, whose bowed heads are concealed by the dishes which they proffer. Napoleon has a huge fork in each hand; with one (right) he spears on its dish a paper inscribed: 'We Burn with desire to lick the Dust of your Deified Feet'; on the other he holds up: 'To the Grand Consular Deity'. The...

Scope and Contents Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: Ackermann. Heading to a broadside, 'Printed by D. N. Shury, Berwick-Street, Soho'. A stout elderly officer (left), in naval uniform with long pigtail, addresses with outstretched left arm a young sailor, putting his right hand in his waistcoat pocket. The youth, who has short curly hair, stands hat in hand, cane under his arm, listening intently; he wears short blue jacket, knotted neck-cloth, white trousers, and low buckled shoes. The 'Address': 'You are...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. Burdett (right) leans from a ground-floor window of the 'Crow[n & A]nchor' tavern, whose façade stretches diagonally across the design, the door on the extreme left. He harangues an audience who stand outside the railings, his right. arm extended. He says: "I say don't Arm - don't enter into the Volunteer Corps, dont support the Minister, dont oppose the French - but you Sailors all demand to be Captains, You Soldiers to be Colonels, you...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. John Bull stands squarely, holding a thick stick with a carved head representing a bull-dog, and a frothing tankard ornamented with a crown. He turns his eyes with appraising disparagement towards Sheridan (right), a ragged bill-sticker, who slouches forward with conspiratorial impressiveness. The latter, right hand raised warningly, says: "The Corsican Thief has slip'd from his Quarters \ And coming to Ravish your Wives & your...