The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . The moribund Republique lies stretched uponher death-bed, her nightcap adorned with the tricoloredcockade. The Abbe Sieyes, in the role of doctor, is exhibit-ing the Emperor, portrayed as a newborn infant in longclothes. John Bull, spectacles on nose, is regarding thealtered conditions with visible astonishment. Pray, Sieyes, what was the cause of the poor ladys death?lie seemed at one time in a tolerable thriving way. Sheied in childbed, Mr. Bull, after giving birth to this littleEmperor! This was followed on the 1st of January by
The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . The moribund Republique lies stretched uponher death-bed, her nightcap adorned with the tricoloredcockade. The Abbe Sieyes, in the role of doctor, is exhibit-ing the Emperor, portrayed as a newborn infant in longclothes. John Bull, spectacles on nose, is regarding thealtered conditions with visible astonishment. Pray, Sieyes, what was the cause of the poor ladys death?lie seemed at one time in a tolerable thriving way. Sheied in childbed, Mr. Bull, after giving birth to this littleEmperor! This was followed on the 1st of January by a large satiricalprint by Gillray, of The Grand Coronation Procession, 35 36 CENTURY IN CARICATURE in which the feature that gave special offense was the groupof three princesses, the Princess Borghese,the Princess Louise,and the Princess Joseph Bonaparte, arrayed in garments ofindecent scantiness, and heading the procession as the threeimperial Graces. The English caricatures of this periodrelating to the new Emperor and Empress are as a rule not. FROM A GERMAN CARTOON OF THE PERIOD. only libelous, but grossly coarse. At the same time, thepolitical conditions of the times are cleverly hit off in ThePlum Pudding in Danger; or, State Epicures Taking unPetit Souper, published February 26, 1805, which depictsthe rival pretensions of Napoleon and Pitt. They are seatedat opposite sides of the table, the only dish between them CENTURY IN CARICATURE 37 being the Globe, served up on a shallow plate and resemblinga plum pudding. Napoleons sword has sliced off the con-tinent—France, Holland, Spain, Italy, Prussia—and his forkis dug spitefully into Hanover, which was then an appanageof the British crown. Pitts trident is stuck in the ocean, andhis carver is modestly dividing the Globe down the middle. During the summer of 1805 the third coalition againstFrance was completed, its chief factors being Great Britain,Russia, and Austria. A contemporary print entitled TomThumb at Bay commem
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