The French-consular-triumverate settl'ing the new constitution [graphic] : with a peep at the consititutional-pigeon-holes of the Abbe Seiyes in the back ground / Js. Gillray fect.
- Published/Created:
- [London]
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
[1 January 1800] - Copyright Date:
- [1 January 1800]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 36 x 26 cm
- Notes:
- Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Constitutions: reference to 1793 French Constitution -- Statesmen: French consuls -- Reference to hell -- Emblems: shackles -- Furniture: chairs -- Cabinet with pigeon holes -- Writing implements: inkstand -- Emblems: olive branches -- Male dress: cocked hats -- Jack boots -- Models: guillotine.
Old Print Shop ; 1961. - Abstract:
- "Bonaparte (right) sits at a small table writing with fierce decision; the second and third consuls sit facing him, biting their pens in pompous indecision, their papers are blank. The latter wear the flamboyant dress of the Directors (see BMSat 9199), Cambacéiès (left) has thick gouty legs. Bonaparte wears similar dress, but with a more fantastic cocked hat, in which, besides enormous feathers, is a large sheaf of olive-branches tied with tricolour (symbol of his overture to George III, see BMSat 9512); he wears jack-boots and a large sabre inscribed 'Liberté'. He writes the 'Nouvelle \ Constitution \ Grand Consul Buonaparte \ Tout en Tout Buonaparte \ Bu . . .' Beside him are papers docketed: 'Constitution pour l'Avenir: Buonaparte Grande Monarque' and 'Confiscations'. On the ground are torn papers: 'Vielles Constitutions'; 'Droit [de] l'Homme'; his foot rests on 'Constitution of 1793'. Behind, Sieyès, a lean grotesque savant, holds apart with both hands, with a violence that suggests impotence, a curtain which stretches across the design, revealing papers in pigeon-holes inscribed: 'Constitution de Parade', 'Constitution du Sang', 'Constitution de Foutre', 'Constitution de Despotism', 'Constitution de Vol[eur?]'. Above them is a model of a guillotine. Above the curtain is a festoon of tricolour, inscribed 'Vive le Constitution Une et Invisible', centred by crossed blunderbusses. The tablecloth is looped up to show a group of tiny fire-lit demons forging fetters. Beneath the design: 'The above are true Likenesses of Cambaceres, - Le-Brun - the Abbé Seiyes, and Buonaparte, drawn at Paris Novr 1799'. All are caricatured, but Bonaparte less than the others."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Variant Titles:
- French consular triumvirate settling the new constitution
- Associated Names:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815 [Printmaker]
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817 [Publisher] - Topics:
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Cambacérès, Jean Jacques Régis de, 1753-1824
Harvey, Francis
Lebrun, Charles-François, duc de Plaisance, 1739-1824
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Riviere & Son
Sieyès, Emmanuel Joseph, comte, 1748-1836 - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings -- England -- London -- 1800
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1800 - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- 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
- Call Number:
- 800.01.01.06+
- Orbis Record:
- 8226672
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr09730
- Volume/Enumeration:
- Digital version
- OID:
- 10952844
- PID:
- digcoll:951161
