File:Poisoning the sick at Jaffa. (BM 1865,1111.2285).jpg
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[edit]Poisoning the sick at Jaffa. ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Print made by: George Cruikshank
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Title |
Poisoning the sick at Jaffa. |
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Description |
English: See No. 12454. P. 92. Bonaparte stands in a dispensary opening off a military hospital, conspiratorially giving orders to a slyly grinning doctor who shows him a bottle labelled 'Poison'. The general points to the hospital, separated from the dispensary by a curtain, where men, apparently moribund, lie on bedsteads. In the dispensary are jars, bottles, scales, pestle, and mortar; a small crocodile hangs from the roof (cf. No. 11057).
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint |
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Depicted people | Representation of: Napoléon I, Emperor of the French | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1814 date QS:P571,+1814-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1865,1111.2285 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949) The most persistent of all 'atrocity' charges; certain plague-stricken French soldiers being given opium on the retreat from Acre in May 1799, see No. 10063. Reproduced, Bourguignon, i. 168. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1865-1111-2285 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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