TITLE: General Swallow-all-o feasting on a French fricassee!! CALL NUMBER: PC 3 - 1799--General Swallow-all-o ... (B size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-07195 (digital file from original print) RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY: Print shows a gigantic Russian soldier, possibly a gross caricature of Field Marshal Aleksandr Vasil'evich Suvorov, eating the severed head of a French soldier, another oversized man, a chef, holds a platter containing several more heads; refers to the defeat of the French in Italy by Russian forces under the command of Suvorov. MEDIUM: 1 print : etching, hand-colored. CREATED/PUBLISHED: London : Pubd. by W. Holland, Oxford St., 1799 May. CREATOR: Holland, William, fl. 1782-1817, publisher. NOTES: Title from item. Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). SUBJECTS: Suvorov, Aleksandr Vasil'evich,--kniaz' Italiiskii,--1730-1800. Military personnel--Russian--Italy--1790-1800. Eating & drinking--1790-1800. Decapitations--1790-1800. FORMAT: Satires (Visual works) British 1790-1800.Etchings Hand-colored 1790-1800. PART OF: British Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress) REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (digital file from original print) ppmsca 07195 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.07195 CONTROL #: 2004681705
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