Bonaparte's bridge [graphic] : to the tune of This is the house that Jack built / La Nourice du Roi de Rome invt.
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker.
- Copyright Date:
- [1 December 1813]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm
- Notes:
- Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Plate numbered "253" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.
"Price one shillg. coloured." - Abstract:
- "Eight designs in two rows, each with lines parodying 'the House that Jack built' etched above each. Some section of the bridge appears in Nos. 1-5. [1] Tiny French soldiers gallop across the bridge; a man punts in the rapidly flowing river. Behind is Leipzig, a walled town backed by hills. Above: "This is the Bridge that was blown into air." [2] Three men, wearing helmets and aprons, excavate a pit beside the bridge, from which a man looks down: "These are the Miners that had the care / Of mining the Bridge . . . [&c.]." [3] A Grenadier corporal holds a long match towards the covered pit; three tiny Grenadiers run across the bridge: "This is the Corporal, stout and strong, / Who fired the Mine with his match so long, / Which was made by the Miners . . . [&c.]." [4] A swaggering officer points at the ground, looking over his shoulder at the corporal, who runs forward with his match, saluting obsequiously: "This is the Colonel of Infantry, Who ordered the Corporal . . . [&c.]." [5] The colonel listens deferentially to an officer who whispers in his ear, pointing downwards: "This is the Marshal of high degree / Who whispered the Colonel.. .[&c.]." [6] Napoleon gallops from the battlefield, indicated by a drum in the foreground and bodies in the background: "This is the Emperor who scampered away, / And left the Marshal . . . [&c.]." [7] Refugees, including women with infants and an old farmer, make gestures of despair. Behind is the blazing town which more fugitives are leaving: "These are the Thousands who cursed the day, / Which made him Emperor ... [&c.]." [8] Four allied sovereigns in a tent consult over a map held between them. Alexander (left) sits on a camp-stool, the others stoop over the map: the King of Prussia is in back view, facing the Emperor of Austria. Bernadotte faces the Tsar: "These are the Monarchs so gen'rous and brave, / Who conquered the Tyrant, and Liberty gave, / To Thousands on Thousands . . . [&c.]"."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Topics:
- Alexander--I,--Emperor of Russia,--1777-1825--Caricatures and cartoons.
Charles--XIV John,--King of Sweden and Norway,--1763-1844--Caricatures and cartoons.
Francis--I,--Emperor of Austria,--1768-1835--Caricatures and cartoons.
Frederick William--III,--King of Prussia,--1770-1840--Caricatures and cartoons.
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--1813.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1813.
Watermarks (Paper)--Basted Mill.--CtY-LW - 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:
- 12892767
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr11724
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9, no. 12108
- OID:
- 16192558
- PID:
- digcoll:4046429
