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Destruction Of The French Gun-boats-or-little Boney & His Friend Talley In High Glee

Destruction Of The French Gun-boats-or-little Boney & His Friend Talley In High Glee

Shared By: LibraryOfCongress Collection 12-24-2009

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TITLE:  Destruction of the French gun-boats-or-Little Boney & his friend Talley in high glee CALL NUMBER:  PC 1 - 10125 (A size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZ62-111317 (b&w film copy neg.) RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY:  Cartoon showing Napoleon, sitting on the shoulder of Talleyrand, gleefully peering through a large rolled document, "Talleyrand's plan for invading Great Britain", at the channel, where the French flotilla is being destroyed by shells from British ships. Talleyrand stands behind the gun embrasures of a fortress on a cliff at whose base the gunboats are foundering. On the horizon is the English coast, with Dover Castle on a cliff. MEDIUM:  1 print : engraving, color. CREATED/PUBLISHED:  London : pubd. by H. Humphrey, 1803. CREATOR: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraver. NOTES: Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). SUBJECTS: Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821. Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles Maurice de,--prince de Bénévent,--1754-1838. Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805. FORMAT: Cartoons British 1800-1810.Engravings British Color 1800-1810. DIGITAL ID:  (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c11317 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c11317 CONTROL #:  94509087