England invaded, or, Frenchmen naturalized [graphic] / Rowlandson delint. & sculpt.

London : Pub. March 16, 1798, at Ackermann's Gallery, No. 101 Strand, [16 March 1798]

1 print : etching and aquatint ; plate mark 32 x 40 cm, on sheet 32 x 42 cm

wove paper

Temporary local subject terms: Invasions: French invasion.

From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.

"French soldiers, who have just landed, are being bayoneted and ridden down by English troops. They flee in terror-stricken confusion. Among the Englishmen are yokels with pitchforks. Three Frenchmen, dead or painfully dying, lie in the foreground ; beside them is a drum. The scene is a grassy slope leading to the sea, where distant ships are in action and where four French troop-carrying rafts, cf. BMSat 9160, are foundering. Tiny figures flee into the sea (right)."--British Museum online catalogue.

Frenchmen naturalized

English

April 23, 2008