print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.7170
- Title
- Object: Observations upon stilts.
- Description
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Napoleon stands on high stilts by the shore, looking through a spy-glass to the English. coast, where, in the background, a tiny John Bull watches him through a telescope. He says: "How very diminutive every thing appears from this astonishing elevation who is that little man I wonder on the Island the other side the ditch - he seems to be watching my motions." He wears his large bicorne, sword, and sash. John, legs astride, says: "Why surely that can't be Bonney, Perch'd up in that manner Rabbit him if he Puts one of his Poles across here - I'll soon lighten his timbers." On the horizon are ships. c. August 1803
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1803
- Dimensions
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Height: 349 millimetres
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Width: 247 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', VIII, 1947)
See BMSat 10008. Napoleon is on stilts in a French print of 1814, 'Du haut en bas . . .', see vol. ix.
Listed by Broadley.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.7170
