print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 1868,0808.12764
Title: Object: Le four des alliés ou le corse près a être cuit.
Description: A French copy of No. 12206, the inscriptions literally translated, except that Wellington merely says: "enfournes le tout ensemble Messieurs." The figures are approximately the size of the original but are slightly closer to each other and to the lateral margins. 1814 Hand-coloured etching.
Producer name: Print made by: George Cruikshank; After: Hannah Humphrey; Published by: Hannah Humphrey
School/style
Production date: 1814
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 240 millimetres; Width: 323 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949) Broadley, ii. 54. Milan, No. 2647. Reproduced, Dayot, 'Napoléon', p. 327; Grand-Carteret, 'Napoléon', No. 291.
Bibliographic references: BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (12206.A); Reid 1871 / A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank (299); Cohn 1924 / George Cruikshank, catalogue raisonné (882)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Associated with: Karl XIV Johan, King of Sweden and Norway (Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte); Associated with: Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher; Associated with: Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor and Francis I, Emperor of Austria; Associated with: Napoléon I, Emperor of the French (Napoleon); Associated with: Marshal Jean de Dieu Soult; Associated with: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington; Associated with: Michael Woronzoff
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1868
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1868,0808.12764

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