Iohn Bull playing on the base villain [graphic].
- Creator:
- Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker.
- Copyright Date:
- [1 January 1807]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm
- Notes:
- Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Reissue by Tegg of a plate first published by Piercy Roberts in 1803; Roberts's imprint statement has been crossed out but is partially legible in lower left corner of design. See British Museum catalogue.
Plate numbered "259" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges.
CtY-LW - Abstract:
- "John Bull sits holding against his knee Napoleon, an elongated puppet, in the position of a bass viol (viol da gamba). His left hand holds the elongated neck; in his right. is a sword, which he draws like a bow across his instrument's body. Napoleon is in profile, facing John, his mouth wide open, as if throttled; he holds a sword limply in his left hand. He wears military uniform with large feathered bicorne. John's hat and wig lie on the ground; he is a prosperous 'cit' in old-fashioned dress, and looks towards the spectator with a satisfied smile. 'Britons strike home' is engraved above his head."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Variant Titles:
- John Bull playing on the base villain
- Topics:
- John Bull (Symbolic character)--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Topics:
- Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership.
Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings--England--London--1807.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1803. - Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Source Title:
- Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Call Number:
- 75
W87
807 v.4
Folio 75 W87 807 v.4 - Orbis Record:
- 12897101
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr10339
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10142
- OID:
- 16192376
- PID:
- digcoll:4046228
