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Thomas Rowlandson: English: Scene in a New Pantomime   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Thomas Rowlandson  (1757–1827)  wikidata:Q318584 s:en:Author:Thomas Rowlandson
 
Thomas Rowlandson
Description English painter, drawer, etcher and illustrator
Date of birth/death 13 July 1757 Edit this at Wikidata 21 April 1827 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Old Jewry London
Work location
London, Paris (1774), France, Germany, Italy, Rotterdam (ca. 1794),
Amsterdam (ca. 1794), Netherlands (ca. 1794)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q318584
Title
English: Scene in a New Pantomime
Description
English: To Be Performed At The Theatre Royal Paris

Published after the Treaty of Chaumont where the European Allies agreed to pursue Napoleon with a multi-national force, this drawing shows the Allies chasing him from the throne room at the Tuileries. The portrait is a caricature of Louis XVIII. Napoleon is dressed as a harlequin, and has discarded his crown and sceptre. He is shown leaping through the portrait of a very complacent Louis XVIII, pursued by a pack of buffoons meant to represent the monarchs of Europe: Ferdinand of Spain (falling), a Russian Cossack (prodding with the spear), the King of Wurtemberg (on his knees, firing the two pistols), the Emperor of Austria (wearing a wallet labeled Pantaloon), the Pope, and the King of Prussia. One of the monarchs takes down the portrait of Columbine, which is either Marie Louise or the Duchesse d'Angouleme.

Reference Source: George #12528.


Also found in Broadley (378) and the DeVinck collection in the Bibliotheque Nationale (Paris).

  • Subjects (LCSH): Political cartoons; History--Caricatures & cartoons; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824; Pius VII, Pope, 1742-1823; Frederick William III, King of Prussia, 1770-1840; Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, 1784-1833; Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835
Date 1815
date QS:P571,+1815-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium
English: Etching, hand colored ; on sheet 24 x 34 cm.
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
144
Place of creation London
Inscriptions
Caption on Image :
SCENE in a NEW PANTOMIME to be PERFORMED at the THEATRE ROYAL PARIS
With intire New Music, Dances, Dresses, Scenery, Machinery & & The principle Characters to be supported by most of the great Potentates in Europe, Harlequin by Mr Napoleon, Clown by King Wirtemberg, Pantaloon Emperor of Austria. To conclude with a Comic Song to be sung by the Pope and a Grand Chorus by the Crown’d Heads .

Vivant Rex et Regina
Pub’d April 12th 1815 by R. Ackermann No. 101 Strand

Dialogue and Signage :
[Labels on characters] CLOWN, PANTALOON
[Small portrait] COLUMBINE
[Large portrait] LOUIS, le bien aimé ("Louis, the well-loved")
Source/Photographer
English: Napoleonic Period Collection
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The author died in 1827, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
Publisher
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Ackermann, R.
Digital ID Number
InfoField
NAP027
UW Reference Number
InfoField
E16

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