print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.12523
- Title
- Object: General Swarrow, towing the French directory into Russia!!
- Description
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A burlesque design of Suvoroff leading the five Directors by ropes round their necks. He marches (left) smoking a pipe; his fur cap is decorated with a skull and cross-bones, similar emblems are on his uniform. On his arm is a medallion inscribed 'Warsaw': a bird of prey tears at an infant. Many pistols are thrust through his belt. The Directors walk in a row, shoulder to shoulder, hands clasped in despair; they wear the official costume of red cloak and feathered hat (see BMSat 9199). They are not portraits. The Directors were Barras, Rewbell (succeeded by Sieyès on 11 May, probably unknown to the artist), Merlin, Larevellière-Lépeaux, and Treilhard (cf. BMSat 9408). 16 May 1799
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1799
- Dimensions
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Height: 253 millimetres
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Width: 372 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)
A satire on the French defeats in Italy in Apr. Suvóroff entered Milan on 28 Apr., having defeated Moreau (but news of this had not reached London). See Sorel, 'L'Europe et la Rév. française', v, 1910, pp. 406 ff.; W. L. Blease, 'Suvorof', 1920, pp. 217 ff. He is represented as an ogre-like creature, on account of the storm of Praga and occupation of Warsaw, see BMSat 8607, &c. For his Italian Campaign, see BMSat 9408, &c.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.12523
