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| Title | Boney's Threatened Invasion Brought to Bear |
| Subtitle | (or) Taking a View of the English Coast from the Poop of the Bellerophon |
| Creator | Cruikshank, George 1792-1878 |
| Publisher | Fores, S.W., 1785-1825 |
| Place of Publication | England -- London -- Picadilly |
| Date | 1815 |
| Caption Text | Caption on image:
Boney's threatened Invasion brought to bear__or taking a View of the English coast from e/y Poop of the Bellerophon
Pub'd by S.W. Fores...50 Picadilly
September 1st, 1815
Etch'd by G. C'k
Dialogue:
[Bonaparte] Me no like de D__n prospect
[Captain] By gar mon Emperor dey have erect von prospect for you.
[Sailor] I thinks as how Master Boney that instead of sending you to Hell Bay they sho'd have sent you to Hell at once.
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| Historical Notes | For years, the English feared that Napoleon would invade England. In the end, he was defeated and was brought to England thinking he would be granted asylum there. That was not to be. Instead, after several weeks of negotiations while he sat on board the Bellerophon in Plymouth Bay, he was transferred to another ship and taken to exile in St. Helena.
In the drawing, Napoleon stands on the cannon on the deck of the Bellerophon. There is a chain around his ankle. General Bertrand, one of Napoleon's most loyal officers who shared his exiles on both Elba and St. Helena, crouches below Napoleon to look through the porthole and comments that the British have erected a "prospect" for him. The only thing in sight is a gallows with a dangling noose, which leads Napoleon to say he doesn't like that prospect. Sitting on the other cannon is a sailor, perhaps John Bull, who comments that instead of sending Napoleon to Hell Bay (Elba), they should executed him in the first place.
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| Publishing Notes | The print was published a month after Napoleon sailed to St. Helena.
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Political cartoons
History--Caricatures & cartoons
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
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| Geographic Coverage | France |
| Digital Collection | Napoleonic Period Collection
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| Digital ID Number | NAP023 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Napoleon Collection |
| UW Reference Number | E12 |
| Object Type | Print |
| Physical Description | Etching, hand colored ; plate mark 25 x 36 cm. on sheet 27 x 38 cm. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original drawing in RGB at 200-400 dpi, saved in TIFF format, changed to indexed color, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2006. |
