print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0822.7185
- Title
- Object: With rage the baron bold turned pale, a blow tremendous gave her tail, &c &c vide Satirist N° 50, page 388.
- Description
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Plate from the 'Satirist', ix. 419. Baron de Geramb stands on a pavement facing a cow, whose tail he has just cut off; he holds up tail and sword, saying, "G—d d—n me no tink she turn again after cut its tail off, by Gar me no like her! Sophia! Maria! protect your slave." The cow's head is lowered menacingly; one horn is caught in the enormously long moustache of the baron, while its hoof rests on a torn-off length of moustache from the opposite side of his face. He wears a braided hussar tunic with fur cuffs and a skull and cross-bones on the breast, tight embroidered breeches with high tasselled Hessian boots, long spurs, and no hat. A high curricle waits for him in the background with a smart groom at the head of a well-matched pair. A crowd watches from across the street, and a little girl runs for protection to an elderly man.
Plate numbered 80.
1 December 1811
Etching and aquatint
- Production date
- 1811
- Dimensions
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Height: 194 millimetres
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Width: 328 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949)
Illustration to verses called 'Baron de G. A Poem in three Tumbles', a burlesque account of the Baron's career, parodying Scott's 'Lay of the Last Minstrel', canto vi. 'Satirist', ix. 386-91 (1 Nov.). It begins: 'Lives there the man with head so thick.' His alleged exploit with the cow in a London street was in order to acquire fame after his arrival in England from Spain. After other ignominous happenings he prays:
"Oh Gracious Heaven! thy servant spare, who mad is,
"For glory, gold, Miss L—g, and Poll of Cadiz."
For his supposed addresses to Miss Long see No. 11744; he published a poem to Sophia of Cadiz (1811), cf. No. 11943.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0822.7185