- Title Information
- Title
- attempt to undermine John Bull, or working through the globe
- Non Sort
- An
- Name
- Name Part
- Roberts, Piercy
- Name Part:
Date
- active 1795-1824
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- caricaturist
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- publisher
- Name
- Name Part
- Roberts, P.
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- caricaturist
- Origin Information
- Place
- Place Term:
Text
- London
- Publisher
- P. Roberts
- Date Created
- 1803
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 print; 37.9 x 25.5 cm
- Abstract
- Engraving. 'Napoleon, not caricatured but wearing a huge cocked hat, stands within a circle representing the globe, plying a pickaxe, with which he enlarges a rocky cavity. One foot rests on 'Ruins' [twice] the other on 'Switzerland'; around him are rocks which he has undermined: (left) 'Batavian Republic', 'Italian Republique', and (right) 'Territories Pick-Axed with Impunity.' On ground at the north pole is territory surrounded by a low cliff inscribed 'Great Britain'; on this lies John Bull, a civilian, but wearing a small cocked hat and holding a sabre. Bonaparte looks up, saying: "O the Pick-Axe is infinitely the best way - I soon shall be at the little fellow - that's his abode - I know it by the white Cliffs." John, with his ear to the ground, says with a smile: "I hear you - burrowing away - my fine fellow, but it won't do, - as soon as you pop your head above the surface, you shall be saluted with a few of John Bull's pop guns."' -- British Museum
- Note
- April 16, 1803 Pub'd by P. Roberts, Middle row, Holborn Etch'd by P. Roberts Broadley says work is by an anonymous artist but inscription on print is as above.
- Subject
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Napoleon
- Name Part:
Terms of Address
- I, Emperor of the French
- Name Part:
Date
- 1769-1821
- Topic
- Caricatures and cartoons
- Related Item:
Host
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- Title Information
- Title
- Napoleonic Satires
- Identifier:
COLID
- 2
- Identifier:
URI
- http://dl.lib.brown.edu/napoleon
- Identifier:
Local
(displayLabel="ASKB Call No.:")
- FrBH 1803 mf-6
- Location
- Physical Location
- John Hay Library
- Identifier:
METSID
- 1130168620236128
- Type of Resource
- still image
- Access Condition:
rights statement
(href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/")
- No Copyright - United States
- Access Condition:
restriction on access
- Collection is open for research.