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Français : Le Volant Corse ou un joli Joujou pour les Alliés (

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Artist

Anonymous

Title

Français : Le Volant Corse ou un joli Joujou pour les Alliés

Description

English: In the Allies campaign for France in the winter of 1814, Generals Blucher (Prussian) and Schwartzenberg (Austrian) advanced on Napoleon's two flanks, eventually defeating him. This victory forced Napoleon's first abdication.

Reference Source: George #12217A, Clerc #28.
A French copy of a Cruikshank caricature. Handwritten notes on an original in the British Museum collection indicate that it was published in England. The De Vinck catalog says it was published in Paris in May 1814. Also found in the De Vinck collection, #8910.

Subjects (LCSH): Political cartoons; History--Caricatures & cartoons; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von, 1742-1814; Schwarzenberg, Karl Philipp, Fürst zu, 1771-1820

Date

1814

Medium

English: Etching ; plate mark 27 x 32 cm. on sheet 29 x 41 cm.

Collection

University of Washington

	Native name	University of Washington
	Location	Seattle, Washington, United States of America
	Coordinates	47° 39′ 15″ N, 122° 18′ 29″ W
	Established	1861
	Website	www.washington.edu
	Authority file	: Q219563 VIAF: 265500071 ISNI: 0000000122986657 ULAN: 500308857 LCCN: n79054596 NLA: 35573202 WorldCat

Current location

University of Washington: Special Collections

Accession number

119

Place of creation

England

Inscriptions

Caption on image :

[Caption Text] LE VOLANT CORSE OU UN JOLI JOUJOU POUR LES ALLIÉS (The Corsican shuttlecock, or a pretty toy for the Allies)

Dialogue and signage :
[General Blucher, left] Bravo Schwartzenberg entretenez le jeu Dieu me damne je vous le renverrai (Bravo, Schwartzenberg, take care of the game, God damn me I'm going to return it to you)

[Schwartzenberg, right] Le voilà ! quoi Blucher ce joujou etait autrefois très lourd mais Dieu me damne S’il n’est pas a present plous leger qu’une plume (There it is ! Blucher, this toy was previously very heavy but God damn me if it isn’t now lighter than a feather!) [Wall in background] Paris

Source/Photographer

English: Napoleonic Period Collection

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