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James Gillray: English: Destruction of the French Gun-Boats   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
James Gillray  (1756–1815)  wikidata:Q520806 s:en:Author:James Gillray q:en:James Gillray
 
James Gillray
Alternative names
James Gilray; Gillay; Gillray
Description British caricaturist and engraver
Date of birth/death 13 August 1756 Edit this at Wikidata 1 June 1815 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London London
Work location
London Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q520806
Title
English: Destruction of the French Gun-Boats
Description
English: or Little Boney & his Friend Talley in high Glee

1803 was a year of alarm and terror for England. It was widely believed that Napoleon planned to invade England, and didn't care how many men he lost. He was reputed to have said: "I can afford 10,000 men a day." The drawing shows this callous disregard for his troops at the same time it belittles Napoleon's capacity to successfully invade England. Napoleon sits on the shoulders of Talleyrand (an influential French diplomat and Minister of Foreign Affairs), peering through a rolled-up document. The document is Talleyrand's plan for the invasion, clearly a disaster from its inception since the French gunboats are outclassed by the British fleet. (Talleyrand was never a general.)

Reference Source: George #10125.

  • Subjects (LCSH): Political cartoons; History--Caricatures & cartoons; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838
Date 1803
date QS:P571,+1803-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium
English: Etching, hand colored ; on sheet 18 x 22 cm.
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
145
Place of creation London
Inscriptions
Caption on Image :
Destruction of the French Gun Boats or Little Boney & his Friend Talley in high Glee

Dialogue and Signage :
[Napoleon] O my dear Talley, what a glorious sight! We’ve worked up Johnny Bull into a fine passion—my good Fortune never leaves me! __ I shall now get rid of a hundred Thousand French CutThroats whom I was so afraid of! – O my dear Talley, this beats the Egyptian Poisoning hollow! Bravo Johnny! – pepper ‘em, Johnny !
[Scroll in Napoleon’s hand] TALLEYRAND’S plan for INVADING Great Britain
[Number at top of image] No. XVII
Source/Photographer
English: Napoleonic Period Collection
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Public domain

The author died in 1815, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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Publisher
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Humphrey, Hannah 1774-1817
Digital ID Number
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NAP014
UW Reference Number
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E17

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