print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.7197
- Title
- Object: The Corsican locust.
- Description
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John Bull, Paddy, and Sandy dine, seated on the grass. All gaze at a locust with the head of Bonaparte, wearing his bicorne, who looks down with a predatory stare. John (l.), seated in front of beef and plum-pudding, and grasping his knife and fork, looks up frowning to say: "As sure as I'm alive, that Contain Locust, smells the Roast Beef, and plumb pudding". Paddy, full face, with a heaped dish of potatoes, and holding a smoking potato, looks up whimsically: "Or perhaps, my Jewel, tis a potatoe, or two you want - but the divil a halfpeth do you get from me." The Scot (r.), in Highland dress, has a covered tureen and holds a steaming bowl and spoon. He grins, saying, "Or perhaps the Cheeld would like a little o' my Scotch Broth, - I but Sandy is too cunning for that." September 1803
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1803
- Dimensions
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Height: 246 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)
One of many invasion prints, see BMSat 10008. For the co-operation of John, Pat, and Sandy cf. BMSat 10009, &c.
Reissued, 1 May 1814.
Broadley, i. 193 (reproduction), 194 f.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.7197
