Item Summary

Print shows four French soldiers with hot pincers torturing "Madame Toussaint" by burning her flesh and pulling out her fingernails; Napoleon gloats on a throne to the right.

Descriptive Information

Title
Boney's inquisition : another specimen of his humanity on the person of Madame Toussaint.
Call Number
E South 13/GC021/Box 24/Normal/19th c./Artists We-Wi GA 2022.00078
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc1g05fq436
Publisher
[London] : Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly, 1804 Oct. 25th.
Language
English
Date Created
1804-1025
Extent
1 print : etching, hand-colored ; 26.8 x 38 cm (sheet)
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10280
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Title from item.
Attribution from George, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.

Discovery Information

Subject
Napoleon I Emperor of the French 1769-1821—Caricatures and cartoons
Torture in art—Caricatures and cartoons
France—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/00d27408-fc32-48f9-9e0d-907aaece477d/manifest