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The coffin expedition or Boney's invincible armada half seas over.
1804
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Omega Project
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Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
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Metadata
- Call Number
- E South 13/GC021/Box 26/Normal/19th c./Artist Williams, Charles GA 2011.01076
- Publisher
- London : [s.n.], 1804/01/06.
- People
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- Language
- No linguistic content
- Subject
- Political cartoons—Great Britain—19th century
- Caricature
- Skull—Caricatures and cartoons
- Coffins—Caricatures and cartoons
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815—Naval operations—Caricatures and cartoons
- Great Britain. Royal Navy—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- France—History, Naval—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Great Britain—History, Naval—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Liberty caps (Headgear)—Caricatures and cartoons
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- The coffin expedition or Boney's invincible armada half seas over.
- Call Number
- E South 13/GC021/Box 26/Normal/19th c./Artist Williams, Charles GA 2011.01076
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dcmc87q308v
- Publisher
- London : [s.n.], 1804/01/06.
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Date Created
- 1804
- Extent
- 1 item ; sheet 28.3 x 43.7 cm.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
- References
- British Museum. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, [1978]. No. 10222 (attributes to Williams).
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
- Depiction: Caricature; political cartoon. Allegorical scene. French soldiers wearing shrouds and red caps, falling out of small gunboats made from coffins during naval battle. A skull with red cap tops the mast of each gunboat.
- Unsigned.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Political cartoons—Great Britain—19th century
- Caricature
- Skull—Caricatures and cartoons
- Coffins—Caricatures and cartoons
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815—Naval operations—Caricatures and cartoons
- Great Britain. Royal Navy—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- France—History, Naval—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Great Britain—History, Naval—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Liberty caps (Headgear)—Caricatures and cartoons
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 2
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Omega Project
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4d9602c2-0b00-4179-a7ca-550fc63f4de6/manifest