File:A hard passage or Boney playing base on the continent. (BM 1868,0808.7683).jpg
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[edit]A hard passage or Boney playing base on the continent. ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Print made by: Thomas Rowlandson
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Title |
A hard passage or Boney playing base on the continent. |
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Description |
English: Napoleon plays a double bass, stooping forward, and looking with an agonized expression towards a music-book on a high stand, the pages headed 'Conquest of / Spain & Portugal' and ending in 'Volti Su . . . .' He says: "Plague take it! I never met with so difficult a 'passage' before - But if I can once get over the 'Flats', we shall do pretty well for you see the 'Key' will then change to B sharp." Behind Napoleon and on the r. stand the Russian bear on his hind legs, muzzled, and blowing a French horn. He says: "Why that is 'Natural' enough brother Boney though this 'French horn' of yours seems rather out of Order I think." Napoleon, who wears a large bicorne, stands on a 'Map of the Continent' showing 'Spain' and 'Portugal'. Behind him are a drum and a roll of 'Boney's Orations Vol. 10th'.
Hand-coloured etching |
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Depicted people | Associated with: Alexander I, Tsar of Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1808 date QS:P571,+1808-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.7683 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947) The Spanish revolt, see BMSat 10997, &c., followed by the Convention of Cintra, see BMSat 11035, &c., upset Napoleon's schemes with regard to Russia and the East. For Napoleon and Alexander cf. (e.g.) BMSat 11031. For Nap-leon playing the bass viol cf. BMSat 10142. Grego, 'Rowlandson', ii. 98-9. Broadley, i. 278 f. Van Stolk, No. 6114. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-7683 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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