This loosely engraved sheet depicts an "Austrian Bugaboo," a figure constructed with long bowed legs, a long beard and a large head, blows smoke at the frightened French Army in retreat. Figures in this raggged French army, a jumble of heads, arms and weapons, are suggested by quickly drawn lines and the application of color washes.
Notes:
Published by Hannah Humphrey, 1792-05-12. This caricature is not listed in Broadley. Alphabetically it falls between Broadley 33 and 34 (33.5?).
Caption: Pubd. May 12, 1792 by H. Humphrey No. 18 Old Bond
Dialogue: Soldiers: "La Liberté! La Liberté! --de s'en faire..."
Verse: "While loyal honour warm'd a Frenchman's breast,/ The field of Battle was a glorious test;/ Nobly ambitious for his King to fight,/ To die or conquer was a Soldiers Right,/ A strange reverse the Democrats displey,/ And prove the "Right of Man"__to run away__"
"Austrian bugaboo funking the French army"
(1792).
Napoleonic Satires from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:232158/
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