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Le nouveau Diogène.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Printed by: Fonrouge

Published by: Aaron Martinet
Title
Le nouveau Diogène.
Description
English: Wellington, much caricatured, walks in profile to the left, holding out a lantern in his search for an honest man. He wears field-marshal's uniform with plumed cocked hat, ribbon and star, sword and high spurred boots. He registers dismay; below the design are his words: "Goddam! Je n'en trouverai donc pas un!" In the background, surrounded by conventional sea, is a piece of land on which the most conspicuous object is a throne with a crown in the otherwise empty seat. Behind it a tiny soldier holds a pennant. By the throne are shattered columns and blocks of masonry. Behind, little pinnacled canopies are grouped with a block of stone resting on two columns, suggesting an Italian and probably Roman scene. Two small oddly drawn ships are on the water. The land behind Wellington ascends into rocky pyramids which are perhaps symbols for a range of mountains.


1816-19


Hand-coloured lithograph
Depicted people Representation of: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Date between 1816 and 1819
date QS:P571,+1816-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1816-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1819-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 303 millimetres
Width: 190 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1861,1012.393
Notes

(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949) One of French prints (Nos. 12708-12713) dated 1816 by Broadley, arranged before authentic dates were ascertained from De Vinck. The date being uncertain the precise application is doubtful. It illustrates the unsettled state of France and the importance of Wellington on the Continent, when commander-in-chief of the Army of Occupation. It may relate to the crisis, when at Wellington's instigation the' Chambre introuvable' was dissolved, see No. 12797. The background may indicate the ultramontanism of French reactionaries.

(Supplementary information) Dated 1816 in pencil in a French hand.

This print is not listed in the 'Bibliographie de France'.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1861-1012-393
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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