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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Hannah Humphrey
Title
Allied Powers, Un-Booting Egalitè.
Description
English: Bonaparte (much caricatured), standing precariously on a 'Dutch Cheese', is attacked by the allies. Austria and Russia pull from his thin leg a large clumsy boot, consisting of a map of 'Italy'; coins (French plunder) pour from the boot, on which 'Naples', 'Rome', 'Florence', and other geographical divisions are indicated. Austria is a fierce hussar, smoking a pipe, on his cap is the Habsburg eagle; he tugs at the boot, the Russian bear (on the extreme left) assists him, its paws clasping his waist. A ferocious Turk holds Bonaparte by the nose and raises a scimitar whose blade, inscribed 'St Jean d'Acre', drips blood; across his shoulders are strung bleeding ears and noses to which Bonaparte's is to be added. A sailor (right), representing the British Navy, seizes Bonaparte from behind; in his hat are ribbons inscribed 'Nelson', 'Duncan', 'Bridport'. A fat Dutchman on the extreme right, with the blunt profile of the Prince of Orange, tugs at the cheese in order to dislodge Bonaparte; he kneels on a paper, 'Secret Expedition'. Bonaparte's uniform is ragged, his left foot is bare, but in each hand is a blood-stained dagger. In the background (right) tiny figures (probably Dutch) dance hand-in-hand round a bonfire in which burns a 'Tree of Liberty', a bonnet-rouge on a pole, cf. BMSat 9214. 1 September 1799
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Representation of: Napoléon I, Emperor of the French
Date 1799
date QS:P571,+1799-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 266 millimetres
Width: 364 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1868,0808.12553
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) The ill-judged 'secret expedition' to North Holland (the Helder) under Abercromby and Admiral Mitchell sailed on 13 Aug. and landed on 27 Aug., relying on the support of Orangists and the co-operation of Russia. On the 30th the Dutch fleet surrendered and hoisted the Orange flag. ('Gazette', 3 Sept.) See Fortescue, 'Hist. of the British Army', iv. 2, pp. 641-59; Aubrey-Fletcher, 'Hist. of the Foot Guards', 1927, pp. 162-73, and BMSats 9413, 9414, 9419, 9420, 9421, p. 574, 9447, 9520. The Turkish fleet assisted at the defence of Acre, where Bonaparte's eastern plans were decisively checked. The French were defeated in Italy by the Russians under Suvóroff (see BMSat 9408, &c), co-operating with the Austrians under Melas. Cf. BMSat 9403. For the share of the British Navy, cf. BMSat 9257, &c.

Grego, 'Gillray', p. 260. Wright and Evans, No. 246. Broadley, i. 126-7. Van Stolk, No. 5468. Muller, No. 5539 A. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-12553
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