• The beast as described in the Revelations, chap 13. Resembling Napoleon Buonaparte

Language:
  • No linguistic content; Not applicable
Creator:
  • Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Contributor:
  • Sauley of Farnham, G., active 1806
Call number:
  • D North 51/GC112/Box 02/Normal/Prints/Titles Ba-Br GA 2014.00096
Extent:
  • 1 item ; sheet 23.7 x 32.6 cm.
Format:
  • Visual material
Type:
  • Caricatures and cartoons
Description:
  • Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
  • Depiction: The Beast, which has sprung from Corsica, is drawn with seven heads. The names of Austria, Naples, Holland, Denmark, Prussia and Russia are on the respective crown. The seventh head, which is of course that of Napoleon, is severed from the trun.
  • Depiction: Spain is represented as the champion who has had the courage to make a stand against the monster. The patriot has crippled the destroyer. The hero is armed with a sabre of True Spanish Toledo, and is crying, "True patriotism shall thus subdue t.
  • Signed in plate, lower left: "G. S. Farnham 1808".
  • Unsigned by Rowlandson.
Publisher:
  • [London] : [s.n.], 1808/07/22.
Subject:
  • Caricature
  • Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821—Caricatures and cartoons
  • France—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
  • France—Kings and rulers—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Political cartoons—Great Britain—19th century
  • Purvis, John Child, 1747-1825—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Spain—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Monsters in the Bible—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Bible. Revelation XIII—Caricatures and cartoons
Date:
  • 1808
References:
  • Broadley no. 46 (gives date as 1803)
  • Grego II, p. 95 (gives date as 1808)
Range label:
  • Logical
Source acquisition:
  • Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
Location:
  • GA D North 51/GC112/Box 02/Normal/Prints/Titles Ba-Br GA 2014.00096
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
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Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/zk51vq870