print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 1868,0808.7235
Title: Object: Little Boney in the whales belley
Description: The whale, an oddly shaped leviathan swims (right to left.) on the surface, spouting water. He has a quasi-human profile, an eye fixed on the spectator. Round his vast neck is a collar: 'Iohn Bull Emperor of the Sea'. A young sailor, wearing trousers and short jacket bestrides the beast, his smiling face turned to the spectator. Within the (transparent) whale kneels Napoleon, much smaller in scale than the sailor. His hands are folded and he prays: "O that I may Prove a second Jonas - that he may Cast me up again." The sailor says: "D------n me how he Gorged him." 1803? Hand-coloured etching
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Production date: 1803
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Technique: etching; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 250 millimetres; Width: 354 millimetres
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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, &c. For sea-power cf. BMSat 10048. Reproduced, Broadley, i. 200.
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Location: Not on display
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Acquisition date: 1868
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1868,0808.7235
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