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Buonaparte, hearing of Nelson's victory, swears by his sword, to extirpate the English from the earth / Js. Gillray invt & fct.

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James Gillray
1756-1815

Buonaparte, hearing of Nelson's victory, swears by his sword, to extirpate the English from the earth / Js. Gillray invt & fct.

[London] : Pubd. Decr. 8th 1798, by H. Humphrey 27 St James Street, [1798]
etching, hand colored
image: 335 x 257 mm; plate mark: 347 x 261 mm; sheet: 359 x 271 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.142
Notes
Below caption title: See, Buonaparte's Speech to the French Army at Cairo; published by authority of the Directory, in Volney's Letters.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows Bonaparte wielding a bloody sabre, inscribed 'Egalité'. Under his right foot is a torn paper headed 'Nelsons Victory over the Fleet of the Republic'. He wears an enormous cocked hat decorated with feathers, aigrette, tricolour cockade, and crescent and around his waist is a sash, in which are thrust a pistol and a jewelled dagger. He declaims: "What? our Fleet captur'd & destroy'd by the Slaves of Britain? - "by my Sword & by holy Mahomet I swear eternal Vengeance! ... [etc.]" A French dispatch rider, dismounted from a camel, gapes at the general, hat in hand and with a bundle labelled 'les Dépéches', under his arm.

Associated names
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints