Tiddy-doll the great French-gingerbread-baker drawing out a new batch of kings

Tiddy-doll the great French-gingerbread-baker drawing out a new batch of kings

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Title:
Tiddy-doll the great French-gingerbread-baker drawing out a new batch of kings
Title (alt.):
Tiddy-doll, the great French-gingerbread baker drawing out a new batch of kings
Description:
The title continues: his Man hopping Talley mixing up the Dough. Napoleon is the London street-seller of gingerbread cakes whose wares and patter made him a long-remembered character. He stands in his bakery vigorously drawing out from the arched aperture of his oven a broad shovel (peel) on which are figures of three kings in royal robes holding orb and sceptre. They are Bavaria, Wirtemburg (very fat), and Baden. The keystone of the arch is inscribed. Napoleon, in profile to the right, wears a feathered cocked hat and a white apron over uniform with jack-boots. Behind him is a heap of cannon-balls, with a shovel. Under the oven is a second and larger arched opening. Broken and discarded cakes have been swept into it by a broom, which lies on the ground against a (gingerbread) galleon flying the flag of Venice, a crowned skull (Spain), a boot (Italy), a Papal tiara, a staff and cap of Liberty, a figure, face downwards, showing heavy posteriors in bulky breeches (Holland), and two fragments (Switzerland and Netherlands), a Habsburg eagle with crowns falling from both heads (Austria), a tricolour flag from whose shaft falls a bonnet rouge. There are also sceptres, a rosary, a coroneted skull, and a fleur-de-lis. In the foreground (l.) is a round double-handled basket, from which protrude the heads of men and women puppets wearing crowns or coronets and holding sceptres. Beside it lies a cornucopia in the form of a fool's cap edged with bells. From it pour crowns, coronets, orders, stars, sceptres, a cardinal's hat, three documents with pendent seals. On the extreme right is a solid chest with three drawers. On it stand unbaked figures are crowded together. In the front row: Sheridan, Fox, Moira, Derby. Behind are Burdett, and (?) Tierney. All wear coronets and hold sceptres. Behind (l.), Talleyrand, with his back to his master, bends over trough handling heaps of a yeasty mass. In the r. corner of the trough is a portion that is being devoured by a crowned eagle with a collar (Prussia). Talleyrand wears a mitre over a tricolour cap and a bag-wig; a stole and robes looped up to show a bandy leg and a surgical shoe (incorrectly on the left foot). In his mouth is a pen; a rosary and an ink-pot hang from his waist (BM).
Artist:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815
Name on Item:
Js. Gillray Invt.
Date:
January 23, 1806
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Caricatures
Satires (Visual works)
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
James Gillray (1756-1815). Prints and Drawings
Subjects:
Rulers
Politicians
Nobility
Authors
Clergy
Ovens
Baking
Friedrich Achilles, Duke of Württemberg, 1591-1631
Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
Tierney, George, 1761-1830
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838
Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835
Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826
Maximilian I Joseph, King of Bavaria, 1756-1825
Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844
Places:
England > London
Extent:
1 print : hand-colored etching ; plate mark 22 x 29 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z111m05h
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
London : Published by John Miller, [Bridge Street & W. Blackwood, Edinburgh]
Language:
English
Notes:
Title from item.
Alternative title from Wright/Evans.
BM Satires 10518; Wright/Evans 309
Additional information accompanying item: From the 1824 Gillray collection of copies, etched and published by John Miller and W. Blackwood.
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Louis Black; December 1953
Notes (date):
Date from Wright/Evans.
Reproduction. Date indicated is Gillray's original publication date.
Notes (citation):
Stephens, Frederic George, George, Mary Dorothy. "Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum." British Museum Press, 1870, London.
Wright, Thomas, R. H. Evans. "Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures of James Gillray." Benjamin Blom, 1968, New York.
Identifier:
18_17_000064
Barcode:
36666004443384