Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Heading to a broadside of twenty-nine verses printed in three columns, with the (printed) title given above. The interior of a carcass-butcher's slaughter-house, the carcasses of animals suspended from the wall. Through the doorway (left) is seen a rock rising from the sea on which stands a bellowing bull; at the base of the rock is a British fleet. Napoleon, the butcher, with cleaver and knife, makes frantic efforts to reach the (distant)...

Scope and Contents Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: Ackermann. Napoleon stands with arms extended, legs astride, looking gloomily to the right. He is on a small piece of land jutting into the ocean. On the left. are two promontories, one fortified, the other bristling with tiny soldiers; on the right are two rocky fortified islands (perhaps indicating Malta). On the sea are ships. He sings (the words etched in the upper right. corner):'Which way shall I turn me How can I deside The Prospects...

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After: William Charles. Print made by: William Charles. Political satire: Napoleon mocks a solid battery with a single gun, flying the British flag, as it shoots him in the chest; the inventor standing by remarks that though his plan of defence was not adopted, he has shown the battery to all the generals in Europe and it has hit Napoleon point blank in the right spot. Description from the British Museum.

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. A large clumsy dog (left) oddly like a bear, its collar inscribed 'Towler', sits under an oak surrounded by puppies; all bark savagely at a group of animals representing France and subject countries. Napoleon is an ape, who pushes forward an ass laden with 'Swiss Cheese'; he holds a staff on which are shackles and a cap of Liberty, and turns his head to snarl. The British dog barks "Keep off Boney"; all the puppies bark "Keep off". By the...

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Artist: Charles - probably William Charles (1776-1820). Inscribed in plate: 'Etch'd by Charles/Pub.d Nov 1st 1803 No 49 Corner of Harpur St Red Lion Square.'

Scope and Contents Published: S. W. Fores. Pitt (left) in volunteer uniform, bayonet in hand, looks over the fortified wall of Walmer Castle into a French gunboat immediately below; he asks: "Who goes there?" The boat, which has a sail (right), is in the foreground, the stern cut off by the right margin. Napoleon seated in the bows on the single cannon, sabre in hand, looks over his right shoulder in consternation, saying, "Ah - Begar! - dot man alive still - turn about Citoyens - for there will be no good to...

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,...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. Napoleon, on a magnificent white horse, is led (right to left) through the City by Light Horse Volunteers. He sits facing the tail, his hands tied. Two dismounted volunteers lead the horse; one holds a British flag flying above the French tricolour; on it is poised Napoleon's huge bicorne. The other holds against his shoulder the prisoner's long sabre; hat and sabre are both labelled 'For St Pauls'. They are followed by volunteers mounted...

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Artist: Charles - probably William Charles (1776-1820). Inscribed in plate: 'Etch'd by Charles/Pub.d as the Act directs Novr. 1803 49 Theobalds Road'.

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Artist: James Gillray. Hand-colored etching.

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Artist: Charles - probably William Charles (1776-1820). Inscribed in plate: 'Etch'd by Charles/Pub.d as the Act directs Novr. 7th 1803 49 Theobalds Road'.

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Napoleon sits on the shoulder of Talleyrand gleefully peering through a large rolled document at the Channel, where the French flotilla is being destroyed by shells from British ships. Talleyrand stands behind the gun embrasures of a fortress on a cliff at whose base the gunboats are foundering. He wears a general's uniform with a long cloak; the crown of his cocked hat is a bishop's mitre. He holds Bonaparte's legs, grinning delightedly....

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Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. The Earl of Harrington sits erect on horseback in profile to the left, his leg awkwardly thrust out. He wears a huge cocked hat, long and thick queue, and full-skirted coat. In the background (on his right) ranks of infantrymen are freely sketched; they fire their muskets and are partly concealed by clouds of smoke. Description from the British Museum.

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. A young man (King) is being chased through the door of a house on to the Parade. He wears court-dress and holds a tricorne hat; suspended from his neck is an oval medallion on which is a nude whole length figure (Venus?); he says: "Oh dear oh dear I shall lose the Golden Apple!!" His apple is on the pavement at his feet. A stern, plainly-dressed man (Heaven) (left) has pushed him out; he says: "Begone thou narrow minded Soul, nor dare to look...

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Artist: Robert Dighton. Published: Robert Dighton. Brook Watson (1735-1807) walks in profile to the right, using a sturdy tasselled cane; his right hand is in his coat-pocket. He is well preserved; a slight stoop suggests hurried walking (on his right wooden leg) rather than age. He wears a round hat, double-breasted coat, frilled shirt, and breeches; a small pigtail and a spatterdash suggest a quasi-military career. Description from the British Museum.

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Artist unknown. Bottom half of sheet with musical score and words cut off and missing. A figure in British military uniform stands with an angel and Britannia. Across the English Channel, stands a French officer, with a devil and death as a skeleton. Taken from a folio of 140 pieces, including two portraits of Napoleon: Loyal and patriotic hand-bills, songs, addresses, etc. on the threatened invasion of Great Britain by Buonaparte. Originally published/produced in London, 1803.

Scope and Contents After: Temple West. Published: Piercy Roberts. An adaptation of the traditional design of the Four (or Five) Alls. Three figures stand on isolated plots of ground. On the left Napoleon lunges forward in profile to the left with drawn sabre; he wears his large bicorne, on his jack-boots are huge spurs. He is 'The Turberlent Mr Fight-all'. In the centre Pitt, 'The Hoñble Mr Tax-all', stands, his head turned in profile to the left, his mouth open as if declaiming. His right hand is on his hip,...

Scope and Contents Published: Piercy Roberts. Napoleon bestrides an ass which stands an open oblong box inscribed 'Iivasion' [sic]. The ass is a spiritless creature wearing blinkers; its rump is branded 'France'. Bonaparte, in profile to the left and wearing a huge tasselled bicorne, holds out a sabre in his left hand. He says: "Me will make dat Jean Bull Tremble now I have found out de Grande Conveyance". On the horizon on the extreme left is a promontory with a castle; near it are a few ships. Description...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. Gunboats in the form of coffins are foundering or about to founder. Each has a single cannon in the bows, and a mast with a triangular sail whose corner is held in the teeth of the skull which surmounts the mast. The crews all wear shrouds and bonnets rouges; on the skulls also are bonnets rouges. Some of the men are screaming in the water, where a floating skull holds the end of a sail in its teeth, looking round fiercely at one of the...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. Two designs placed side by side, the title so arranged that 'The Contrast' applies to both, the first four and last two words to the two designs respectively. [1] A scene outside Jaffa where the French flag flies from a fort on a rock at whose base are hospital tents (left), in which the sick can be seen. In the foreground Napoleon (a poor portrait) points with an imperious gesture to a bottle of 'Opium' in the hand of a distressed doctor in...