Fighting for the dunghill - or - Jack Tar settling Buonaparte

Fighting for the dunghill - or - Jack Tar settling Buonaparte

Item Information

Title:
Fighting for the dunghill - or - Jack Tar settling Buonaparte
Title (alt.):
Fighting for the dunghill. Or, Jack Tar settling Buonaparte
Description:
A British sailor, firmly planted astride the globe, is severely punishing Bonaparte, who, with one knee precariously on 'Turk[ey]' (Egypt), is about to fall backwards into space. Bonaparte wears a huge cocked hat, is naked from the waist, but wears sleeve-ruffles, according to the old gibe on the beggarly French fop. He is much emaciated, and gashed with wounds. 'Nelson' is inscribed on his solar plexus. Blood gushes from his nose. Jack Tar's right leg stretches across central Europe, the toe supported on 'Malta.' Clouds form a background (BM). / John Bull giving Boney his "belllyfull." This subject needs no explanation (Wright/Evans).
Artist:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815
Name on Item:
Js. Gillray delt.
Date:
November 20, 1798
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Caricatures
Satires (Visual works)
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
James Gillray (1756-1815). Prints and Drawings
Subjects:
Sailors
Emperors
Military officers
Nobility
Fighting
Globes
John Bull (Symbolic character)
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805
Extent:
1 print : hand-colored etching ; sheet 23 x 32 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z111m27j
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 9268; Wright/Evans 212
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_000075
Barcode:
36666004443491