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Fighting for the dunghill: -or- Jack Tar settling Buonaparte   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Hannah Humphrey
Title
Fighting for the dunghill: -or- Jack Tar settling Buonaparte
Description
English: A British sailor, firmly planted astride the globe, is severely punishing Bonaparte, who, with one knee precariously on 'Turk[ey]' (Egypt), is about to fall backwards into space. Bonaparte wears a huge cocked hat, is naked from the waist, but wears sleeve-ruffles, according to the old gibe on the beggarly French fop. He is much emaciated, and gashed with wounds; 'Nelson' is inscribed on his solar plexus. Blood gushes from his nose. Jack Tar's right leg stretches across central Europe, the toe supported on 'Malta'. Clouds form a background. 20 November 1798
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint
Depicted people Associated with: Napoléon I, Emperor of the French
Date 1798
date QS:P571,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 259 millimetres
Width: 357 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.945
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) One of many prints illustrating the elation at Nelson's victory, see BMSat 9250, &c. Malta broke into open rebellion against the French on 2 Sept. 1798; the revolt was supported by a British blockade, but the French garrison at Valetta did not capitulate till 5 Sept. 1800.

Grego, 'Gillray', p. 248. Wright and Evans, No. 212. Broadley, 'Napoleon', i. 122-3. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830. Often reproduced, e.g. Wheeler and Broadley, ii. 178; Grand-Carteret, 'Napoléon en images', 1905, p. 55; Fuchs, p. 161 (small copy).
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-945
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