print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.7182
- Title
- Object: Three plagues of Europe.
- Description
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An adaptation of the traditional design of the Four (or Five) Alls, see BMSats 7416, 11643. Three figures stand on isolated plots of ground. On the left. Napoleon lunges forward in profile to the left. with drawn sabre; he wears his large bicorne, on his jack-boots are huge spurs. He is 'The Turberlent Mr Fight-all'. In the centre Pitt, 'The Hoñble Mr Tax-all', stands, his head turned in profile to the left., his mouth open as if declaiming. His r. hand is on his hip, and he holds a paper between finger and thumb. On the r. is a ferocious nude Devil in profile to the left.; he claws and capers with outstretched talons. He is 'The Worshipfull Mr Take-all'. c. August 1803
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1803
- Dimensions
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Height: 272 millimetres
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Width: 350 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)
Adapted from 'The Three Plagues of Europe!!', pub. Holland, 1 June 1803 (attributed by Broadley to Woodward). The three figures stand on rocks placed in the sea. The centre figure, with the same caption, is Addington (a poor portrait). Napoleon is 'General Fight-All', the Devil is 'The Revd Mr Take-all'. (Reproduced, Broadley, i. 174.)
Broadley, i. 189.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.7182
