print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1851,0901.826
- Title
- Object: Lord Mum overwhelmed with Parisian embraces
- Description
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Lord Malmesbury's coach is drawn (right to left) by French poissardes, grotesque and with bare pendent breasts. A cheering crowd fills the street; bonnets-rouges are waved and thrown into the air. He puts his head through the carriage window to kiss a 'poissarde', waving his cocked hat. Another woman (left) says, "my turn next". A sansculotte dances on the roof of the coach, urinating on the royal crown which decorates it, waving his bonnet-rouge, and singing "Caira Cair &c." Two of Malmesbury's footmen are carried on the shoulders of 'poissardes' behind the coach; a boy picks the pocket of one of them. Among the ragged crowd a Jew and a man playing a fiddle are conspicuous. People cheer from the windows of a house which forms a background. 7 November 1796.
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1796
- Dimensions
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Height: 252 millimetres
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Width: 359 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)
For the reception of Lord Malmesbury in Évreux see BMSat 8828; his entry into Paris was quiet: the Directory, judging the demonstration untimely, took measures to prevent its repetition. Sorel, 'L'Europe et la Rév.fr.', v, 1910, 116. See BMSat 8829, &c.
Hennin, No. 12,294.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1851
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1851,0901.826
