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French alias Corsican villainy or the contrast to English humanity.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Charles Williams

Published by: S W Fores
Title
French alias Corsican villainy or the contrast to English humanity.
Description
English: Two designs placed side by side, the title so arranged that 'The Contrast' applies to both, the first four and last two words to the two designs respectively. [1] A scene outside Jaffa where the French flag flies from a fort on a rock at whose base are hospital tents (l.), in which the sick can be seen. In the foreground Napoleon (a poor portrait) points with an imperious gesture to a bottle of 'Opium' in the hand of a distressed doctor in civilian dress. He says: "Don't talk to me of Humanity & the feelings of a generous heart, I say Poison those Sick dogs they are a burthen to me, & can no longer fight my Battles!!! I say destroy them - As for those Turks, them up in the Garrison, turn all the Guns upon them, Men, Women, & Children & blow them to atoms, they are too bold & resolute for me to suffer them to live, they are in my Way." In the middle distance (l.) is a body of Turks, their arms tied behind them, guarded by a French soldier who points at Napoleon. Behind Napoleon two French officers exchange glances, acutely dismayed at the orders. 13 January 1804
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Napoléon I, Emperor of the French
Date 1804
date QS:P571,+1804-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 247 millimetres
Width: 351 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1868,0808.7239
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947) For the plague-stricken at Jaffa (May 1799) see BMSat 10063; for the garrison and the prisoners of El Arish (March), BMSat 10062. [2] Two negro soldiers, in neat regimentals, prepare to kill three haggard French officers. One raises an axe to smite a bound prisoner. Two British officers (l.) interpose with outstretched arms; one says: "We know they are our Enemies, & yours, & the Enemies of all Mankind, nevertheless Humanity is so strongly planted in the Breast of an Englisman [sic], that he can become an humble beggar, for the lives, even of his enemies, when they are subdued." The other adds: "A mercy unexpected, undeserved surprises more." Evidently a supposed episode in the three-cornered contest between the French, the negroes, and the British in San Domingo (1803).

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