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Le colera de Napoleon
Title
Le colera de Napoleon [graphic].
Publication
[Spain] : [publisher not identified], [1808 or 1809?]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 23.6 x 31 cm, on sheet 25.5 x 32 cm
Medium
laid paper
Notes
Title from text above image.
Text below image begins: Noticioso Napoleon de qe sus exercitos de España ...
Copy of a print by James Gillray; for the original, see no. 9998 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8. For a more simplified Spanish copy, see no. 11058.
Summary
A Spanish version of Gillray’s 1803 satire ‘Maniac Raving’s-or-Little Boney in a Strong Fit’, the texts in the plate adapted to the Spanish relationship with France during the Peninsular War - after the invading French armies were defeated by the Spanish in Andalusia at the Battle of Bailen ‘Napoleon is frantic with rage at the news from Spain... He blames Godoy (whom he had made ‘Prince of the Algarves’) for deceiving him, apostrophizes Talleyrand, reproaches Dupont, and his second-in-command Vedel, for the capitulation of Baylen... his deceptions are discovered by the ‘perfidious Englishman’, probably Sir Hew Dalrymple, the Governor of Gibraltar’ (British Museum catalogue).
Format
Images
Language
Spanish
Added to Catalog
May 16, 2023
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Satires (Visual works) - Spain - 1808.
Etchings - Spain - 1808.
Engravings - Spain - 1808.
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