Nursing the spawn of a tyrant, or, Frenchmen sick of the breed [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
- Copyright Date:
- [14 April 1811]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35 x 24.6 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm
- Notes:
- Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Plate numbered "68" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2. - Abstract:
- "Marie Louise shrinks in terror from her baby son, seated on her knee, who threatens her with a dagger. In his left hand is the orb which he seems about to hurl at her. He wears a cocked hat and has the features of his father in profile to the left. Napoleon draws aside a curtain (right); his profile (to the right), expression, and cocked hat resemble those of his son, as in British Museum Satires No. 11719. The Empress: "There's no Condition sure so curst as mine--Day and Night to dandle such a Dragon--The little Angry Cur snarls while it feeds--See how the Blood is settled in his Scarecrow Face--what brutal mischief sits upon his Brow--Rage and Vengeance sparkle in his Cheeks--the very spawn and spit of its Tyrant Father--Nay now I look again he is the very Picture of his Grandfather the Devil". In her alarm she kicks over a child's commode (right); a saucepan and spoon lie on the floor. On the extreme left appears the head of a mitred bishop (probably Fesch), who raises an arm, as if from the floor or below it, holding up to the Empress a goblet inscribed 'Composing Draught'. Beside him, a sinister face, behind the Empress's chair, looks up to say: "Send him to his Grand Pappa as quick as possible"."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Variant Titles:
- Frenchmen sick of the breed
- Topics:
- Bonaparte, François-Charles-Joseph,--Herzog von Reichstadt,--1811-1832--Caricatures and cartoons.
Fesch, Joseph,--1763-1839--Caricatures and cartoons.
Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership.
Marie Louise,--Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French,--1791-1847--Caricatures and cartoons.
Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings--England--London--1811.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1811. - 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.2
Folio 75 W87 807 v.2 - Orbis Record:
- 12859181
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr11458
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9, no. 11721
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 204-5 - OID:
- 16192499
- PID:
- digcoll:4046377
