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Explication.No.1 George Roi d'Angleterre ...
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English: A French print without title but having numbers referring to an 'Explication' engraved beneath the design. English soldiers ('2'), whose bodies are formed of earthenware pitchers, march with precision in two ranks on very thin legs. They wear high caps like elongated beehives, and have two standards: a (?) pig's head wearing a French crown, a small castle surmounted by a fool's head in cap and bells. Both are on long poles. Their leader is George III ('1'), who marches in front, having a similar body but with very thick legs in jack-boots. He wears a night-cap, has ass's ears, and is led by a turkey-cock (Pitt, '3') in whose mouth are strings attached to the King's nose. An advanced guard ('7') on the left, wearing helmets, lies shattered, the pitchers are broken, and from them emerge snakes, toads, and rats. One man who stands without his pitcher has a body composed of a long neck or tube attached to two thin legs. The cause of the damage is the excrement which strikes them from the posteriors of four French sansculottes ('6') who squat on the top of a massive but ruined (Roman) archway. A row of five large clyster-pipes mounted on gun-carriages ('9') is in the middle distance; on one of these sit three jockeys. Behind the troops (right) a goose ('8') wearing a hat (Fox) bestrides a man, who walks with his hands touching the ground, a trumpet issuing from his posteriors. The background is a landscape with bare hills.


'EXPLICATION. N° I. George Roi d'Angleterre commande en personne l'élite de son Armée Royal-Cruche N° 2. II est conduit par son Ministre Pitt ou Milor Dindon N° 3 qui le tient par le Nez pour mieux lui prouver son attachement. L'avant-Garde de la Royal Armée N° 4. recoit un échec a la parte de la Ville N° 5, qui est occasioné par la colique de quelques Sans-Culottes places au haut de la Porte N° 6. L'avant-Garde dans sa défaite brise les cruches, dont il ne sort que toutes sortes de Bêtes venimeuses N° 7, qui est l'esprit qui les animes [sic]. Fox ou Milord Oie N° 8 ferme la marche monté sur sa Trompette Angloise et qui témoin de l'échec sonne un rappel en arriere par prudence. Artillerie Angloise nouvelle N° 9 qui a la vertu d'éteindre les incendies et de délaier les fortifications.' c. May 1794


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Charles James Fox
Date 1794
date QS:P571,+1794-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 400 millimetres
Width: 543 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1882,0812.472
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) As is usual in French satires, George III is represented as an imbecile dominated by Pitt. Fox induces the populace to sound the trumpet for a retreat, apparently an allusion to his resolutions and speeches against the war with France. 'Parl. Hist.' xxx. 423 ff. (18 Feb. 1793), 994 ff. (17 June 1793), 1477 ff. (6 Mar. 1794); xxxi. 615 ff. (30 May 1794). Cf. BMSat 8437. David presented this and BMSat 8463 to the Committee of Public Safety, who ordered 5,000 impressions of each to be printed, of which 1,000 were for the Committee (500 coloured, 500 uncoloured), and a payment of 3,000 livres to the artist. 29 Floréal an II (18 May 1794). He had been commissioned by the Committee of Public Safety, 12 Sept. 1793, to provide prints and caricatures which should rouse public spirit and show the atrocity and absurdity of the enemies of Liberty and the Republic. Blum, p.95.

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Commissioned from David by the Committee of Public Safety. On 27 March 1794 David presented to the Committee 'two caricatures of his composition, one showing an army of jugs, commanded by George, led by a turkey, the other[BMSat.8463] representing the English government in the form of a wild and horrible figure, dressed in all his royal insignia'. On 18 May 1794 it ordered 1000 impressions, half in colour, at a cost of 3000 livres. See Claudette Hould 'La propagande de l'état par l'estampe durant la terreur' in Michel Vovelle (ed.), 'Les images de la Révolution française', Paris 1988 pp.29-37.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1882-0812-472
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