Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The Corsican Munchausen __ Humming the lads of Paris.
Call Number
D North 51/GC112/Box 04/Normal/Prints/Titles Co-Cz GA 2014.00161
Identifier
ark:/88435/5d86p730d
Publisher
London : [s.n.], 1813/12/04.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1813
Extent
1 item ; sheet 26.1 x 36.8 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Broadley no. 228
Grego II, p. 261
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Aquatints, Hand coloring
Depiction: The Emperor, with all the bombast, bravado, and speciousness of which he had an excellent command, has summoned a meeting of his faithful subjects and supporters - who, judging from the expression of their faces, appear but an unwilling and disaffected audience - in order to present his infant son to the people. The scion of the great captain is dressed in a miniature uniform, with a long sabre trailing on the ground, and a gold stick, which he is trying to fancy is a riding horse....The Corsican is vaporing on a grand scale, trying ineffectually to raise the ardour of his dupes: "Did I not swear I would destroy Austria? Did I not swear I would destroy Prussia" etc. etc.
Unsigned.

Discovery Information

Subject
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821—Caricatures and cartoons
France—Kings and rulers—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Political cartoons—Great Britain—19th century
France—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Europe—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Munchhausen, Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von, Baron, 1720-1797—Caricatures and cartoons
Tall tales—Caricatures and cartoons
Caricature

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/df4c3edb-c5c5-485d-a072-2f9241c5eb40/manifest