print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.11277
- Title
- Object: The People's Penny Pictures No 2 December 22, 1832 Price One Penny Plain. Coloured, Two-Pence Siege of the Citadel of Antwerp
- Description
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Heading to a sheet printed in two columns. John Bull, much distressed, stands in water, with his dismantled ships under his arms, saying, 'What a Devil of a mess I've got into'. Leopold stands behind him, leaning on his shoulders; he says: 'Oh! I fear I've put my foot in it'. Behind him (left) stands a dismayed French officer, Marshal Gérard, his nose knocked off by a cannon-ball, with a pop-gun, 'Gerard's Pop Gun', under his arm, i.e. "the large mortar from Liege". They stand outside the walls of a fortress behind which appears the head of a Dutchman "in ease and comfort" contemptuously puffing smoke from a long pipe, "which he lights with the protocols of the Conference, and the summonses of Marshal Gerard . . .". 1832
Wood-engraving
- Production date
- 1832 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 430 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 275 millimetres (sheet)
- $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', XI, 1954)
A violent attack on British foreign policy, belied by events: Chassé surrendered the citadel of Antwerp to the French on 23 Dec., having defended it since 29 Nov. See No. 17295, &c.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.11277