File:Buonaparte ordering five hundred & eighty of his wounded soldiers to be poisoned at Jaffa. (BM 1866,0407.984 1).jpg
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[edit]Buonaparte ordering five hundred & eighty of his wounded soldiers to be poisoned at Jaffa. ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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After: Sir Robert Ker Porter
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Buonaparte ordering five hundred & eighty of his wounded soldiers to be poisoned at Jaffa. |
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Description |
English: See BMSat 10062. Bonaparte stands under the draped entrance to a tent, expostulating with a horrified doctor (r.) who holds a bottle of 'Opium'. Behind, in the tent, are figures of apparently moribund men. 12 August 1803
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Depicted people | Associated with: René-Nicolas Dufriche, baron Desgenettes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1803 date QS:P571,+1803-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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1866,0407.984 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947) Like BMSat 10062 this derives from Wilson's book (pp. 76-8); he gives the wildly exaggerated number of 580 victims. A physician is said to have indignantly refused to dispose of the plague-stricken French soldiers by administering opium, but an apothecary, who afterwards confessed, agreed to do so. Bonaparte, on the retreat from Acre to Cairo, was at Jaffa from 24 to 29 May 1799. [Bonaparte's famous visit to the plague-stricken at Jaffa, the subject of the picture by Gros exhibited at the Salon of 1804, was in March when the town was captured. See W. Friedlander, 'Napoleon as "Roi thaumaturge" ', 'Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes', iv. 139 ff.] Those stricken with plague were left behind, some thirty being given narcotics to save them from the Turks and ensure a painless death. A few survived and were rescued by Sir Sidney Smith. The physician is evidently Dufriche (Desgenettes), who distinguished himself in the treatment of the plague-stricken at Jaffa. He relates that he had rejected Bonaparte's views, but that others had administered poison. Napoleon never denied the charge. Fournier, 'Napoleon', 1911, i. 172. The affair figures largely in Napoleonic satire, see Index, s.v. Jaffa. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1866-0407-984 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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