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The political cocks
Title
The political cocks [graphic].
Publication
[London] : Pubd. March 27th, 1803, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly, [27 March 1803]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 24.3 x 35 cm
Medium
laid paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher's advertisement in lower right: Folios of caracatures lent out for the evening.
Summary
"Two fighting-cocks, with the heads of Napoleon and Pitt, face each other across the English Channel. Napoleon (left) has a large ruff of tricolour feathers and enormously long spurs, but his wings and tail feathers are clipped. His cliff is the higher; he leans forward, saying, "Eh Master Billy, if I could but take a flight over this Brook I would soon stop your Crowing, I would Knock you off that Perch, I swear by Mahomet, the Pope and all the Idols I have ever Worshiped." Pitt stands on a large royal crown which brings his feet almost to a level with those of Bonaparte; he stands erect, thus towering above his rival; he has very short spurs but a fine tail and wings; he crows: "Tuck a roo - too that you never can do!!!" Below them lies the sea with a fleet of ships in full sail close to the English coast."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 21, 2023
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 9973
Broadley, A.M. Napoleon in caricature, 1795-1821, v. 1, page 161
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1803.
Etchings - England - London - 1803.
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