Tiddy-doll the Great French Gingerbread Baker Drawing Out a New Batch of Kings James Gillray (British, 1757-1815). Tiddy-doll the Great French Gingerbread Baker Drawing Out a New Batch of Kings, 1806. Etching and watercolor (hand coloring) on wove paper, image: 9 3/8 × 14 3/8 in. ( × cm). After Napoleon's victory at the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805, James Gillray published this etching, which shows the emperor pulling "imperial gingerbread," labeled with the names of three German territories, from the "new French oven." Behind the emperor is French Foreign Minister Charles Maurice de
Tiddy-doll the Great French Gingerbread Baker Drawing Out a New Batch of Kings James Gillray (British, 1757-1815). Tiddy-doll the Great French Gingerbread Baker Drawing Out a New Batch of Kings, 1806. Etching and watercolor (hand coloring) on wove paper, image: 9 3/8 × 14 3/8 in. ( × cm). After Napoleon's victory at the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805, James Gillray published this etching, which shows the emperor pulling "imperial gingerbread," labeled with the names of three German territories, from the "new French oven." Behind the emperor is French Foreign Minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord kneading the dough to prepare Hungary, Poland, and Turkey for transformation under Napoleonic rule. Here, Gillray uses the vocabulary of satire to highlight the rate of Napoleon's conquests and his creation and installation of loyal rulers, expressing British anxieties over the French emperor's growing dominance across Europe. European Art 1806
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