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Title: The history of the nineteenth century in caricature
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Maurice, Arthur Bartlett, 1873-1946 Cooper, Frederic Taber, 1864-1937, joint author
Subjects: History, Modern Nineteenth century Caricature
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ed by glorious visions of Britannia and her lionoccupying a triumphal car formed from the hull of a Britishship, drawn by an Irish bull and led by an English tar. Sheis dragging captive to the Tower little Boney and the RussianBear, both loaded with chains. The dangers which threatened Napoleon at this periodwere shown by Gillray in one of the most striking of all his car-toons, the Valley of the Shadow of Death, which was issuedSeptember 24, 1808. The valley is the valley of Bunyansallegory. The Emperor is proceeding timorously down atreacherous path, bounded on either side by the waters ofStyx and hemmed in by a circle of flame. From every sidehorrors are springing up to assail him. The British lion,raging and furious, is springing at his throat. The Portu-guese wolf has broken his chain. King Death, mounted on amule of True Royal Spanish Breed, has cleared at a boundthe body of the ex-King Joseph, which has been thrown intothe Ditch of Styx. Death is poising his spear with fatal 44
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h ^ z f p-l « > £ <u <; ^ 46 CENTURY IN CARICATURE aim, warningly holding up at the same time his hour-glasswith the sand exhausted; flames follow in his course. Fromthe smoke rise the figures of Junot and Dupont, the beatengenerals. The papal tiara is descending as a Romanmeteor, charged with lightnings to blast the Corsican. The Turkish New Moon is seen rising in blood. The Spiritof Charles XII. rises from the flames to avenge the wrongsof Sweden. The Imperial German Eagle is emergingfrom a cloud; the Prussian bird appears as a scarecrow, mak-ing desperate efforts to fly and screaming revenge. From the Lethean Ditch the American Rattlesnake is thrustingforth a poisoned tongue. The Dutch Frogs are spittingout their spite; and the Rhenish Confederation is personifiedas a herd of starved Rats, ready to feast on the Corsican.The great Russian Bear, the only ally Napoleon hassecured, is shaking his chain and growling—a formidableenemy in the rear. Gillrays caricature entitle

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