Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Evacuation of Malta

Image not available
James Gillray
1756-1815

Evacuation of Malta

[London] : Pubd. Feby. 9th. 1803 - by H. Humphrey St James Street, [1803]
soft ground etching, hand colored
image: 244 x 355 mm; plate mark: 256 x 358 mm; sheet: 342 x 464 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.467
Notes
By James Gillray.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows Addington squatting over a cocked hat into which he evacuates papers: 'Guadeloupe', 'Martinique', 'St Domingo', 'Cape of Good Hope', 'Egypt', and 'Malta'. Napoleon holds him by the cravat and threatens him with a sabre, saying, "All! - all! - you Jean F-t-e! - think yourself well off that I leave you Great Britain!!!" Addington, terrified, says: "Pray do not insist upon Malta! - I shall certainly be turned out! and I have got a great many Cousins and Uncles & Aunts, to provide for, yet!" A French officer in uniform holds out his cocked hat to catch the papers which fall from Addington. He says, holding his nose: "My General, you had better not get him turn'd out - for we shall not be able to humbug them any more.

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